Piatt 22338. 
ATHANASIA LEUCOCLADA, Harv. 
Composirz. Tribe ANTHEMIDER. 
A. leucoclada, Harv. Flora Capensis, iii. 191; ramis floriferis virg- 
atis teretibus albido-tomentosis ad apicem foliiferis, foliis sessilibus 
amplexicanlibus ovato- vy. oblongo-lanceolatis acutis serratis_coriaceis 
glabris utrinque melanostictis, capitulis multifloris hemispheericis pee 
Has. South Africa, Griqua East, in the Zuurbergen, 5,000 feet, and 
in the Malowe Mountains, near Clydesdale, 4,000 feet, W. Vyson 
(Nos. 1,185, 2,057). 
Rami floriferi 14-2-pedales. Folia internodia obtegentia, caulina 
inferiora 3-1-1} poll. longa. Oapitula 4-4 poll. diam. 
The t pe of Drege, collected between the Omsamwubo and yrs 
Samcaba, I have not seen; but Mr. Bolus’s determination of : re 
Tyson’s s cimens, which correspond accurately * with De Candolle’s 
description, is doubtless correct. 
The plant was also unknown to Harvey, who first phere bi 
Species to Athanasia. The achenes and their crowning teeth ee ees 
to those of A. tridens, figured on the preceding plate. ee ee ¢ in 
Sends from Natal a specimen so similar to Mr. Tyson’s p ant, ve ma 1 
the glabrescent stem and the slightly larger leaves and a soni var. 
can only regard it as a form of the same species (A. Jewcocla 
glabrescens), 
Fig. 1. i i itulum and solid receptacle. 2. Involueral ae a 
3. Stics Meter eoiaate be? 1s 5, Anthers, 6. Style-branches. 7. Ovary. 
All enlarged. 
j i i is cenorachis, to 
receptacle, however, is solid, not hollow as in Hymenolep 
* The 
which De Candolle doubtfully referred it, 
