Athrivia. | COMPOSIT (Hary.) 291 
and scabrous above; heads subcapitate ; outer inv. scales much acu- 
minate, brownish, very densely hairy except at the points, shorter than 
the ovate inner scales. DC. 1. c. 268. Gnaph. hirsutum, Thunb.! Cap. 
646 (but not G. asperum, pte. as stated by Lessing ). 
Has. Cape (no locality stated), Thunberg! (Herb. Th.) 
About a foot high, not tomentose or woolly, but clothed with long, soft, silky 
brown hairs. Leaves closely set, imbricating, 3-5 lines long, rigid. Heads 6-12 
together in terminal tufts. Outer inv. scales dark-coloured. The left hand speci- 
men of ‘‘ Gn. asperwm” Thunb., in Herb Th., referred to by Lessing, exactly agrees 
with A. asperum var. a, DC., and differs from the present in its woolly toment not 
silky pubescence. 
XCVIII. ATHRIXTA, Ker. 
Heads many-fi., heterogamous ; ray-/l. in a single row, ligulate or bi- 
ligulate, female ; dise.-f. perfect, 5-toothed, tubular. Aecept. naked. 
Inv. turbinate, the scales closely imbricate in many rows, aristate-re- 
curved at the points. Achenes oblong, beakless, sometimes with a tuft 
of hairs at the base, sometimes naked, glabrous or pilose. Pappus con- 
sisting either wholly of filiform, rough bristles in a single row; or more 
frequently of bristles and short serrulate scales alternating. DC. Prodr. 
6, p. 276. 
African suffrutices with the aspect of some Asters. Leaves alternate, decurrent 
or sessile, linear or narrow, mucronate, rigid, with revolute margins, tomentose 
beneath, smooth or scabrous above. Heads terminal, solitary ; rays spreading, 
white or purple ; disc yellow. Natives of Abyssinia and Madagascar, as well as of 
the Cape. Name, possibly from a@np, an awn ; from the awned iny. scales ? 
Leaves sessile, ovato-lanceolate, smooth above, woolly beneath (1) phylicoides. 
Leaves sessile, linear, smooth above. 
Stem much branched, tall; branches spreading ; achenes 
ees ee ss, es os (8) ete. 
Stem subsimple; branches erect; achenes quite glabrous (3) angustissima. 
Leaves sessile, linear, gland-hispid above... ... ... ... (4) Gerrardi. 
Leaves more or less decurrent, scabrous above ; the upper- 
most at least linear-subulate, the lower either similar or 
P: ned seg of heiethon with short, interposed (5) 
‘appus consisting of bri Wi in scales (5) heterophylla. 
Pappus consisting of bristles only (no short scales) _—.... (6) Capensis. 
1, A. phylicoides (DC.! 1. c. 277); stem erect, slender, fruticose, dif- 
fusely much branched, the twigs glabrate ; leaves sessile, ovato-lanceo- 
late or lanceolate, acuminate, with slightly reflexed margins, white- 
tomentose beneath, above dark-green and glossy, 3-nerved at base, and 
veiny ; inv. cobwebbed, the scales lanceolate-acuminate ; pappus with 
interposed scales; achenes pilose. 
Has. Tambukiland, Ecklon! betw. Omsamcubo and Omtata, Drege! Trans Kei 
Hi. Bowker! No, 70!. Natal, Dr.Sutherland! Bushman’s River, Natal, Gerr. § M’X.! 
547. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) : 
A slender, much-branched, twiggy shrub, “‘ used in making brooms and its leaves 
infused as tea”—( Dr. Sutherland), Leaves 3-1 inch long, not unlike those of Phy- 
lica paniculata, but larger, the midrib alone visible beneath through the toment., 
lateral veins obvious on the glossy, upper surface. Heads terminating small twigs ; 
the invol. scales variable in shape, more or less taper-pointed. I find scales among 
the pappus bristles, and the achenes constantly clothed with erect, white hairs. 
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