290 COMPOSIT& (Harv.) [Anameton. 
flexed, 4-3 inch long, 2 lines wide, all mucronate (even in the original specimen in 
Hb. Berol.) Inflorescence at first hemispherical, almost capitate, afterwards ex- 
panding into a much and closely-branched corymb. Outer inv. scales deep brown, 
strongly contrasting with the white inner scales, 
2. A. virgatum (DC. 1.c. 268); stem subsimple, erect, slender, leaf- 
less at the summit ; leaves linear, with revolute margins, erect or erecto- 
patent, quite smooth above, the younger ones woolly beneath; heads 
minute, 2—3-fl., densely crowded; base of the invol. woolly, medial 
scales ovate, acute, brown, glabrous, inner white, short, undulate ; recept. 
nude. 
Has. Cape L’Aguillas, Drege. Cape, E. & Z.! (Herb. Sond.) 
1 have seen no specimen of Drege’s plant, but describe from a sp. of #. & Z. in 
Hb. Sond., which answers pretty nearly to DC.’s description. It looks like a very 
slender depauperated form of A. arborescens, with much smaller involucres and fewer 
flowers in each. 
4, A. asperum (DC.! 1. c. 268); flowering branches woolly, leafless 
at the summit ; leaves linear, mucronate, erecto-patent, tomentose be- 
neath, glabrous or cobwebbed, and either scabrous or smooth above; 
outer inv. scales acute, reddish, villous or softly and densely hairy, 
shorter than the obtuse inner scales; recept. nude. 
Vak. a. asperum ; upper surface of the leaves rough with raised points ; inv. scales 
very hairy. <A. asperum, DC.l.c. Gn. asperum, Th.! Cap, 641. 
Var. 8. leve ; upper surface of leaves quite smooth ; invol. scales villous. 
Has. Hills about Capetown and Simon’s bay, Thunb.! Stellenbosch and Caledon, 
Ecklon! Drakenstein and Hott. Holland, Drege! Zey.! 2912. 8. Table Mt., and 
Simonstown, W.H.H., C. Wright, No. 328, 359, 360. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Very similar in to A. arborescens, but readily known by its silky-villous 
involucre. Var. §. is intermediate between true “ arborescens,” of which it has the 
leaves, and true ‘‘asperwm,” of which it has the involucres. The leaves in both vars. 
are more erect than in A. arborescens ; the inv. scales less rufous. Zeyher’s 2912 has 
the leaves copiously cobwebbed with loose, deciduous wool. The receptacle is nude 
and the achenes pubescent, but not wrapped in wool as they are in A. arborescens. 
5. A. recurvum (DC.! |. c. 268); robust, diffuse, much-branched, 
flexuous ; branches very woolly, closely leafy to the summit or nearly 
80; leaves linear, with strongly-revolute margins, mucronate, scabrous, 
but nude above, woolly beneath, spreading or falcate, recurved ; heads 
(immature) densely-crowded in a hemispherical glomerule (afterwards 
probably expanding 7?) ; outer inv. scales ovate, acute, brown, villous ; 
ne D peas (not fully grown). Gnaph. recurvum, Lamk. Dict. 2, p. 74, 
e DC. 
Pas pore District, Ecklon ! Hott. Holl. Berg., Zey/ 2911. (Herb. Sd., 
-» Cap. 
Stems robust, diffuse or procumbent, shaggy and closely leafy. Leaves like those 
of A. asperum, from which this seems chiefly to differ in habit. DC. describes the 
inv. scales as “ quite glabrous,” but I find them copiously silky on Ecklon’s original 
specimen. Until the fully-developed inflorescence shall be found this sp. must 
remain doubtful. 
6. A. hirsutum (Less.! Syn. 356); fl. branches hirsute, sparsely leafy 
at the summit ; leaves linear-oblong, mucronate, erect, with strongly 
revolute margins, hairy beneath, roughly-pilose (becoming nude in age) 
