ee. 
A naseton. | _ COMPOSIT# (Harv.) 289 
XCVIL ANAXETON, Cass. 
Heads few-flowered, moneecious, all the fl. tubular, 5-toothed; one 
or two female, the rest male. Recep. flat, without pales, woolly or 
glabrous, Jnv. scales in many rows, dry, loosely imbricate, the inner- 
most clawed, spathulate, with a roundish (white) lamina. Style in the 
male-fl. quite simple. Achenes sessile, cylindrical, beakless, the fertile 
granulated or pubescent. Pappus of a few scabrous or shortly plumose 
bristles, shorter than the flower. DC. Prodr. 6. p. 267. 
Small shrublets, erect or ascending, sparingly branched ; the fl. branches closely 
leafy below, somewhat pedunculoid upwards. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, quite 
entire, sessile, mucronate, one-nerved, nerve channelled above, with revolute margins. 
Heads small in branching corymbs ; iny. scales white or rosy-purple. The habit is 
something like that of Metalasia, but the leaves are contrariwise; glabrate or glossy 
on their upper, tomentose on their Jower surface. Name unexplained. 
Upper surface of the leaves quite smooth and even : 
Outer inv. scales quite glabrous, rosy or purple; heads 
RRS se ee oe ee ee ee ee wk, (1) OP DOTOROONE, 
Outermost scales woolly, medial glabrous, brown ; heads 
Bag N sO Se ee sd ee eee (a) Vipaton 
Outer and medial scales, silky-villous; heads 5-6 fl.: ; 
Leaves narrow-linear, erecto-patent ... ... ... (4) asperum, 8, 
Leaves oblong, patent reflexed; outer inv. scales 
brown © ..5 oe OV a ae ae ee) 
Upper surface of the leaves rough with raised points: 
Younger leaves cobwebby or tomentose; older nude: 
Erect; lvs. erecto-patent ; cymes peduncled ... (4) asperum, a. 
Diffuse ; lvs. falcate-recurved ; glomerules on leafy 
branches Bae mee ne Sele te es ee ae a Oe 
Younger leaves pilose, with long silky hairs; outer inv. ‘ 
scales much acuminate; inner with ovate tips... ... (6) hirsutum. 
1. A. arborescens (Cass.); flowering branches woolly, leafless at the 
summit; leaves linear, mucronate, patent, tomentose beneath, glabrous 
and glossy above; heads about 5-fl.; outer inv. scales acute, glabrous, 
glossy, reddish, or purple, much shorter than the oblong, obtuse, or emar- 
ginate white inner scales. Less. / Syn. 354. DC. /1.c.268. Gnaph. arbo- 
rescens, Linn. Gn. arboreum, Linn. Th.! Cap.645. Lam. Ill. t. 692, f. 2. 
Pan ae on the hills round Capetown and in the W. districts. (Herb. Th., 
A foot ae 8 inches high; branches erect, or curved, virgate. Leaves }-1 inch 
long, 1-2 lines wide, horizontally spreading or recurved, pungent, rigid. Pedunc. 
1-3 inches long. Corymb much branched; outer inv. scales often purple. Achenes 
enveloped in long wool. 
3. A. nycthemerum (Less.! Syn. 355); flowering branches woolly, 
distantly leafy ; leaves oblong, mucronate, patent-reflexed, tomentose 
beneath with revolute edges, glabrous and smooth above ;, heads in a 
very dense, glomerulated, hemispherical, branched cyme, 5-flowered ; 
outer inv. scales brown, villous, shorter than the oblong, obtuse, white 
inner scales ; recept. quite nude. DC. /. c. 268. 
Has. Southern slope of Devil’s Mt., Bergius. Collected by Mundt! but the locality 
uncertain, #. dé Z.! (Herb. Sond., D., Cap.) 
Ascending-erect, about a foot high, branched chiefly near the base, the branches 
curved upwards, closely leafy for more than half their length. Leaves strongly re- 
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