300 COMPOSIT& (Harv.) [ Relhania. 
conduplicate, nerved, mucronate; pappus very short, crown-like, sub- 
dentate. Thunb.! Cap. 639. Less.! Syn. 376. DC.l.c. 286. Athanasia 
squarrosa, Linn.? 
Van. B. brevifolia ; leaves shorter ; heads on shorter pedicels, 2. recurva, DC. 
1. c. (excl. syn. Less.?) 
Has. Karroo, Thunberg! Swellendam, Mundt, Thom, E. & Z.! Zederberg, Drege! 
Zey. 2826. Elandsberg, Dr. Wallich! (Herb. Hk., D., Sd.) 
A foot or more high, robust, woody, corymbosely branched. Branches closely 
leafy, all the leaves recurved or squarrose, very rigid, glabrous. Heads several in 
corymbs, on pedicels as long as themselves or shorter. Whatever R. recurva, Less. 
may be, the plant distributed by Drege under that name is certainly not different 
from this species. 
Sect. 2. Ecropss (Gaernt.) (Sp. 4-13.) 
4. R. genistefolia (L’ Her. Sect. 22); leaves linear or oblong-linear, 
punctate, viscidulous, recurvo-mucronate, more or less distinctly nerved ; 
heads corymbose, oblong, on longer and shorter pedicels; inv. scales 
obtuse ; ray achenes 3-cornered, villous, of the dise slender, glabrous. 
Thunb.! Cap. 639. Eclopes genistefolia, DC.1.¢, 288. Athanasia genis- 
tefolia, Linn. Eclopes punctata, Cass. Less.! Syn. 378. 
Var. a; angustifolia ; leaves squarrose or spreading, narrow-linear or oblong 2-4 
lines long. . genistefolia, DC. 
Var. 8; glutinosa ; leaves erecto-patent, oblong-linear, 4—6 lines long, more gluti- 
nous, and rather more distinctly dotted. LE. glutinosa, DC. l. ¢. 
Var. y. discoidea; heads discoid; leayes obovato-linear, viscidulous. Z. viscida, 
Less, Syn. p. 379- 
Has. About Capetown and in the Western and S. Eastern District, Common. 
Grahamstown, Genl. Bolton! Zey.! 2823, 2624. B. Piquetberg, Drege! Zey.! 842. 
(Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
A much branched, strongly scented, viscidulous and glabrous bush. Leaves vari- 
able in size and somewhat in form, always acute or mucronate, in f. erecto-patent 
and straighter. Heads several in acorymb. Var. y. (from the eastern base of the 
Devil’s Mt.) seems to be a mere accidental state, without ray-flowers. 
5. RB. affinis (Sond.! in Herb.) ; leaves linear-oblong or spathulate, 
punctate, viscidulous, very obtuse, nearly nerveless, spreading; heads 
corymbose, oblong, on very short pedicels; inv. scales and achenes as 
in £. genisteefolia. 
Has. Near the Berg River, Zey.! 842. (Hb. Sond., Cap., D. 
) 
Very like R. genistefolia, but more scrubby, with broader and very blunt, almost 
nerveless leaves. Perhaps a mere variety? 
6. R. multipunctata (DC.! 1. c. 286); stem shrubby; branches thinly 
cobwebby-canescent ; leaves lance-oblong, narrowed at base, flat, sub- 
acute, one-nerved, spreading, on both sides copiously gland-dotted ; heads 
2-3 together at the ends of the branches, pedicelled, cylindrical; ™mV- 
scales appressed, the outer short, obtuse, inner long, narrow, acute OT 
acuminate ; palee setaceo-subulate ; pappus white, of many scarcely 
connate, subulate scales. 
Has. Zeederberg, Drege! (Herb. Sond.) 
_Aslender, branching, small shrub. Leaves 4-3 inch long, rather sparse, 14-2 lines 
: wide. Inv. 6-9 lines long, pale, Palez of the recept. very slender, much acuminate. 
7. B. cuneata (Th. Cap. 639); quite glabrous, viscid; leaves opposite, 
