A retotis. | COMPOSIT# (Harv.) 457 
Has, Cape, Thunberg? (Herb. Th.) 
_ With the habit of A. argentea and A. pinnatifida, this is known by its very narrow, 
imvolute leaves, Lvs, 1-1} in, long, 3-1 line wide. DC’s var. 8., denticulata, which 
T have seen in Hb. Sd., has decidedly spathulate, expanded leaves, and seems to me 
to be a narrow leaved form of A. cuneata, DC. (A. stechadifolia, 5.) 
II, Pseuparctotis, (Sp. 28-30.) 
28, A. venidioides (DC.!1.c. 489); herbaceous, exespitose-erect, thinly 
pubescent and glandular, branched from the base; leaves oblong, mem- 
branous, entire or toothed, acute, the lowest tapering to the base, the 
upper half-clasping ; outer inv. sc, lanceolate, hairy, taper-pointed, erect, 
inner glabrous, ovate, obtuse; achenes shortly pubescent; pappus very 
short. 
Has, Olifants R., Drege! (Herb. Hk., Sd.) ' 
The specimens seen by me are very imperfect, and I have chiefly drawn my de- 
scription from DC. 1, ¢. 
29, A. pusilla (DC. 1. c. 489); “root slender, annual; stem short, 
simple, one-headed, sparingly leafy, striate, puberous; radical leaves 
petioled, elliptic, sinuate-toothed, somewhat 3-nerved at base, pubescent 
on both sides; cauline sessile, lanceolate, erect; outer inv. sc. linear, 
hairy; inner glabrous, obtuse, scarious; achenes glabrous, crowned with 
6-8 pappus scales.” DC. l. ¢. 
Has. Olifant’s R., Drege!’ (Unknown to me.) 
80, A. flaccida (Jacq. Schoenbr. t, 163); stem herbaceous, ascend- 
ing, weak, fistular, angle-furrowed, branched, leafy, hispidulous ; cauline 
leaves ear-clasping at base, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, subentire or 
repand, the lowermost tapering at base, all thinly puberulous or gla- 
brescent, the youngest minutely cobwebbed beneath; uppermost lvs. 
linear; pedune. terminal, very short, setose; outer inv. sc. in about 3 
rows, setose, with linear, obtuse, erect, thinly canous points; achenes 
minutely puberulous, with strongly toothed wings, pappus of very short, 
semicircular scales, DC. @. ¢. 490. : 
. Has. Cape, Jacquin. N: ualand, Von Schlicht. (Herb. Sond. 
Root sanuek “Radical maven, nie’ Jacquin, petioled ; all the atin, save the 
lowest, strongly clasping. Lvs. 2~3 in. long, }-{ in, wide, pale green, membranous. 
Rays according to Jacquin white, yellow at base ; in our sp. they seem to have been 
yellow, each with a dark spot. Our plant in other respects so nearly agrees with 
Jacquin’s figure, that I can hardly think it different. It seems naturally allied to 
Venid. semipapposum, but has a more evident and complete, though minute, pappus. 
(Garden species, unknown to us.) 
A, decurrens (Jacq. Sch. t. 165); “stem suffruticose branched ; 
branches hairy, here and there subtomentose, leaves on both sides hairy, 
undivided, obovate-oblong, somewhat toothed, the limb decurrent along 
the half-clasping petiole ; outer inv. sc. with linear, spreading points.” 
DC. t. ¢. 487. 
Has. Cape, Jacquin. 
Drege’s plant (Hb. Sd.) referred to this species by DC. seems to me to belong to 
A, angustifolia. 
