454 COMPOSITA (Harv.) | A rctotis. 
the more or less pmnatifid char. of leaves, and their usually whitish, woolly under- 
side; this last char., however, is very variable, and in var. 8. especially there is 
sometimes no toment. Sometimes the leaf-lobes are 3-3 in. wide, sometimes 1 line. 
In var. e. they are most divided, and much crisped and curled. 
16. A. fastuosa (Jacq.? Schoenbr. t. 166); stem herbaceous, fistular, 
erect, branched, pilose with jointed hairs ; leaves scattered, petioled, 
elliptic-oblong or oblongo-lanceolate, coarsely toothed or sinuous, pilose 
on both sides, the medial half-clasping, the uppermost sessile, clasping ; 
pedune. ending the branches, very pilose; outer inv. sc. with long, 
subulate, pilose points, inner glabrous and glossy ; achenes silky, with 
a very copious basal tuft. Less. Syn. 22. DC. l. c. 487. 
Var. 8. spinulosa, Less. ; lvs. undulate, the upper more auricled and clasping ; 
pedune, short. A. spinulosa, Jacq. l. c. t. 167. 
Has. Cape, Jacquin. Modderfontein, Rev. H. Whitehead! (Herb. D.) 
Root said to be annual. Stem 2-3 ft. high, hollow, as thick as a swan’s quill. 
Lower lys. I have not seen ; medial, including the petiole, 3-4 in. long, 1-1} in. wide. 
Heads very large and showy ; rays numerous, bright orange. I describe from Mr. 
Whitehead’s specimen, which, so far as it goes, agrees well with Jacquin’s figure, 
above quoted. I give var. 8. wholly on Lessing’s authority. 
17. A. levis (Thunb.! Cap. 708); stem suffruticose, branching, gla- 
brous or cobwebbed ; leaves either glabrous and smooth on both sides, 
or thinly tomentose beneath, becoming glabrous in age, more or less 
incised or pinnatifid, the lateral lobes narrow, horizontal, mostly toothed, 
upper lys. half-clasping at base; pedune, terminal, nude or sparsely 
hispid ; outer inv. sc. with glabrous or scabrous, linear, squarrose points. 
Less.! Syn. 22. DOC.1. ¢. 487. A. denudata, Th.! Cap. 710. A. gla- 
brata, Jacq. Schoenbr.t.175. A. grandiflora, Jacq. l.c. 378. A. sqwarrosa, 
Jacq. l. c. 177. fide Less, l. c. 
_ Has. Olifant’s R., Thund.! Leliefontein, and the Giftberg, Drege! (Herb. Th., 
D., Hk., Sd.) 
_ Pale green, slightly glandular, mostly smooth in all parts; the young parts some- 
times with deciduous toment. Leaves mostly pinnatifid, the lateral lobes 1-3 in- 
long, 1-5 1. wide. Pedunc. 4-6 in. long, heads at length nodding. 
18. A. revoluta (Jacq. ? Schoenbr. t. 173, fide DC.); stem suffruti- 
cose, rooting, branches furrow-striate, tomentose, leaves on both sides 
white-tomentose, pinnatipartite, the lobes numerous, narrow, linear or 
lanceolate, toothed, with revolute margins; pedicels tomentose (or “nigto- 
pilose”) ; outer inv. sc. with long, subulate, tomentose, subsquarrose 
points, A. revoluta f. fruticosa, DC.! 1. c. 488. 
» Has. Breedriver, Drege! (Herb. Sond.) 
«Of this I have seen but a fragment. The leaves are more like those of A. candida 
\» than of any of the fruticose species. Lf. lobes 4-3 in. long, 1-21. wide. Rays 
\ yellow, fulvous externally. It is very doubtful whether this be Jacquin’s plant. 
¥ _ 19. A. stechadifolia (Berg. Cap. 324); stem half-shrubby at base, 
Pee or ascending, branches elongate, tomentose; leaves not scabrous, 
either tomentose on both surfaces or nude on the upper, whitish, taper- 
ing much at base, either oblong or obovate and toothed, or lyrate, of 
pinnatifid with broad, blunt lobes, sessile or half-clasping, and some- 
