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upper surface; cauline leaves usually inconspicuous, lanceolate, amplexi- 
caul, adpressed or slightly spreading, acute. Flower-heads usually few, 
i— 1- in. in diam. Segments of the involucre 10, unequal, acute, keeled. 
Calyx-teeth ^ line long and about as broad, mucronate or apiculate. 
Fruit densely muricate. Poiret in Lam. Encyl. Supp. I. 288, 1810. 
Trattinnick Gen. Nov. PI. 9, t. 49, 1825. DC. Prod. IV. i. 87, 1830. Don. 
Syst. Bot. III. 266, 1834. Dietrich Syn. PI. II. 935, 1840. Sond. in Fl. 
Cap. II. 534, 1862, excl. syn. Var. a, Sonder, l,c. 
Alepidea cillaris, Steud. Nom. 26, 1821. Alepida ciliaris, Kuntz. 
Rev. Gen. III. ii. Ill, 1898. Astrantia ciliaris, Schult. Syst. Veg. VI. 
344, 1820. 
South Africa. George Div. : Moist lands near George, Boiuie ! 
Albert Div. : Cooper, 680 partly ! Graaff Eeinet, Koudeveldt, 4,000- 
5,000 ft., Tyson! Transvaal: Caledon Eiver, Nelson, 8! Natal: Weenen, 
4,800 ft. Wood, 6644! Near Nottingham Road, Wood, 5234! Same 
locality, Wood in Natal Gov. Herb., 7611! Without locality; Masson ! 
Forster ! and a specimen in Herb. Linngeus ! 
Dr. B. D. Jackson, of the Linnaean Society, courteously permitted me 
to examine the specimens in the Linnaean Herbarium, of which there are 
two affixed to one sheet. The one marked T 374 represents the allied 
species A. serrata, Ecklon and Zeyher, though both are labelled Astrantia 
ciliaris. From the description of that species, I infer that Linnaeus based 
it upon the numbered specimen. 
12. A. SERBATA, Eckl. and Zey., Enum. PI. 339 (1835). 
Glabrous, ^-If ft. high ; stem slender, subnude, racemosely or 
paniculately branched, the branches slender and ascending, 1-6 in. 
long. Radical leaves 4-14, rosulate, erect or spreading, petiolate ; petiole 
^-3 in. long, slender, terete, and grooved, or slightly flattened ; blade 
2-6 in. long, J— J in. broad, lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, or rarely oblan- 
ceolate, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, occasionally reticulated on both sides, 
obtuse, acute or acuminate, tapering or slightly rounded at the base, with 
coarsely serrate-setose or double-serrate (rarely crenate-serrate), margin, 
with rigid setae between the teeth, which are usually inflexed and 
appressed to the upper surface. Stem-leaves inconspicuous, remote, 
adpressed or ascending, amplexicaul, acute. Flower-heads usually few, 
■1—^ in. diam. Calyx-teeth J line long, mucronate. Styles stout, obtuse. 
Fruit compressed, muricately ridged, or entirely muricate. Dietrich Syn. 
PI. II. 935, 1840. Walp. Repert. II. 38o, 1843. Alepidea f errata, Steud. 
Nom. 48, 1840. Alepidea serrata, A. moltenensis and A. catkcartensis, 
0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. III. ii. Ill, 1898. Astrantia ciliaris, Linn. f. 
Supp. 177, 1871. Linn., Syst. Veg. 273, 1784. Thunb. Prod. 49, 1794. 
