A ntithrixia. | COMPOSIT (Harv.) 293 
branches erect, virgate, leaves (except in var. 8.) linear-subulate, pun- 
gent, with revolute margins, strongly decurrent at base, rough with 
glandular bristles on the outer surface ; pappus wholly of rough bristles. 
Less.! Syn. p. 365. DC! l.c.276. Aster crinitus, Thunb.! Cap. p. 688. 
Var. 8B. latifolia (DC.) ; lower and medial leaves broadly oblong or lanceolate, 
expanded, nearly smooth above or scabrous along the edge merely, white-woolly 
beneath, with inflexed margin. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Ecklon. Paarlberg and Swellendam, Drege! ~. In Wor- 
cester and Clanwilliam, Z. § Z.! Drege! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
About a foot high, branched chiefly near the base, very rigid, canescent. Leaves 
an inch long, mostly linear, the lower ones occasionally broader, decurrent for a 
long way down the stem. Inv. scales with very long, narrow, bristle-shaped, re- 
curved points. Rays purple. Achenes with a tuft of bristles at base. Var. 8, has: 
the foliage nearly of A. heterophylla, but not the pappus! 
XCIX. ANTITHRIXIA, DC. 
Heads many-fi., radiate, the ray-fi. ligulate, flat, female; disc-fl. tubu- 
lar, 5-toothed. Jnv. imbricate, the scales linear-oblong, with dry, obtuse 
points. Recept. nude. Anthers tailed. Style-branches truncate. Achenes 
terete, glabrous, with a small, basal, pubescent style, sub-rostrate. Pap- 
pus in one row, of very many, rigid, roughish bristles, slightly united 
at base. DC. Prodr. 6, p. 277. 
A small, dwarf shrub, much branched and twiggy ; the young twigs cobwebbed, 
becoming glabrous. Leaves opposite, slightly connate at base, linear, short, obtuse, 
woolly above, midribbed and glabrate beneath, the midrib scabrous. Avxils often 
leaf-bearing. Heads terminal, solitary, yellow. The invol. is that of a Leyssera ; 
the pappus of Athrizia; and the foliage that of some Pteronia. Name from ay7i, 
contrary to, and Athrixia ; different from Athrizia. 
1. A. flavicoma (DC. 1. c. 278). 
Has. Camiesberg, Drege! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
A much branched scrub, about a foot high. Leaves 2-3 lines long. Heads about 
4 inch long. Inv. glossy, the scales rigid below, membranous at the point, fulvous. 
C. LEYSSERA, Linn. 
Heads many-fl., radiate ; ray-fl. ligulate, female, with shorter ovaries ; 
disc-fl. tubular, 5-toothed, perfect. ecept. withoufpalex, subfimbril- 
liferous. nv. imbricate, of dry scales. Achenes terete, shortly beaked, 
with a terminal areole. Pappus in one row; in the ray-fl. of short 
scales ; in the disc-fl. of long, plumose bristles, alternating with small 
scales. DC. Prodr. 6, p. 278. 
Suffrutices or herbaceous plants, all African. Branches slender, leafy, ending in 
one-headed peduncles. Leaves scattered, sessile, linear, often with axillary leaf-tufts. 
Flowers yellow. Name, in honour of Leysser, author of the Flora Halensis. 
Pappus-bristles in the disc-fl. feathered completely from top to base : oe 
Inv. scales very obtuse, in few ormanyrows .. ... (1) gnaphalioides. 
Inv. scales lanceolate, acute or acuminate ... ...... (2) imcana. 
Pappus-bristles in the disc-fi. feathered at the top only, naked 
at bake <.05 0 oe a ea ee os ce (3) tenella. 
1. L. gnaphalioides (Linn. Sp. 1249, non Th.) ; suffruticose, inv. 
scales all very obtuse. Less./ Syn. p. 368. DC.! 1. ¢. 278. Jacq. le 
