KONGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDUNGAR. BAND. 32. N:0 5. 47 



Asteropsis Less. 



A. macrocephala Less. - — Baker, 1. c. pag. 17. 



Rio Grande do Siil: Campos da Ciina da Serra, pluribi in cainpis areiiosis, apricis, 

 siccis; spcciinina reportaviinus e Cruz Älta (18^"/4 9.S. Malme 728 A'.), inter Silveira Mar- 

 tins et Cruz Älta (18 ^Vs 93. Malme 728.). 



Lio^ulas alba3 v. leviter roseo-violascentes. 



*o^ 



Heterothalamus Less. 



H. psiadioides Less. — Baker, i. c. pag. 19. 



Rio Graude do Sul: Porto Alegre (In collibus arenoso-glareosis, apricis. 18Vn92. 

 Malme 244 B. — 18 Vg 93. Malme 826 B.). 



Frutex valde ramosus, usque ad 1 in. altus, foliis glutinosis, ligulis flavis nitenti- 

 busqne. Mensibus Jun. — Octobr.( — Novembr.) floret. 



Aster L. 

 A. calocephalus Malme n. sp. 



IC: tab. nostr. IV fig. 13. 



Herba perennis, circitcr 0,5 m. älta. Caulis simplex, erectus v. basi nonnuraquam 

 (forsan haud normaliter) decumbens, pro rata gracilis, teres, striatus, glaberrimus, sajpe 

 purpurascens, usque ad apicem foliatus. Folia nuinerosissima, sat densa v. haud multurn 

 distantia (internodiis 0,5 — 2 (rare — 3) cm. longis), apicem caulis versus decrescentia, 

 amplexicaulia, erecta v. erecto-patentia, stepe curvata, integerrima, acutissima, 1 — 3-nervia, 

 supra et subtus glaberrima, margine pilis brevibus, adpressis, rigidis, parcis scabriuscula; 

 inferiora sajpe anguste oblaneeolata, 5 — 6 cm. longa, circiter 4 mm. lata; ceter;! c basi 

 lata linearia v. sensim angustata et fere subulata, stepe + canaliculata; majora (media) usque 

 ad 8 — 9 cm. longa, (explanata) 2 — 2,5( — 3) mm. lata, superiora sa?pe vix 4 cm. longa. 

 Injiorescentia sat oligocephala (calathidiis 4 — 10), läxa, pedicellis calathidiorum glabris, sat 

 erectis, vulgo circiter 3 cm. longis, squamis vulgo 7, 3 — 4 mm. longis, amplexicaulibus, 

 acutis, margine leviter ciliatis, sa^pe atropurpureis instructis. Calathidin (cum ligulis) 

 13 — 15 mm. longa, heterogama. Jnvolucri camparmlati, 7 — 8 mm. longi squamre 30—40, 

 valde inajquilonga;, multiseriataj, dorso glabras, margine vulgo parce breviterque ciliata), 

 prtesertim apicem versus + atropurpureaj, late albohyalino-marginatas, inferiores (2 — )3 — 4 

 mm. longfe, lanceolata? v. lineari-lanceolataj, acutas, superiores oblanceolatffi v. anguste lingu- 

 lato-oblanceolata^, acuta) v. brevissime acuminatfe, apice deltoideaj, usque ad 7 — -7,5 mm. longa;, 

 circiter 1,5 (rarius usque ad 2) ram. lata;. Ligulce 30 — 40 (cum ovario) circiter 13 mm. longas, 

 tubo gracili, circiter 3 mm. longo, supcrne pilis gracilibus parce ornato; limbo coeruleo, circiter 

 9 mm. longo, 1,5 mm. lato, sublineari v. anguste lingulato, apice sat indistincte tridentato; rami 



