A Bevision of the Genius Alepidea. 
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lanceolata, apice obtusa vel acumi nata, basin versus in petiolam attenuata, 
margine obscure crenato-serrata, pilis 2-6 mm. longis. 
Eadical leaves 10-16, crowded, petiolate ; petiole 1-4 in. long, narrow ; 
blade 2-6 in. long, 3-6 lines broad, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate to obtase, tapering into the petiole below ; margin obscurely crenate- 
serrate, the awn-like bristles 1-3 lines long. 
South Africa. Orange Eiver Colony : Cooper, 3502 and 2542 ! Natal : 
Van Eeenen, 5,000-6,000 ft.. Wood, 5735! Noodsberg, 2,000-3,000 ft.. 
Wood, 5215 ! Pietermaritzburg, Wilms, 1996 ! 
The long, narrow, crenate-serrate leaves distinguish the variety from 
the type. 
6. A. PROPiNQUA, Diimmer, sp. nov. 
Planta circiter 4 dm. alta, glabra. Oaulis erectus, basin versus 
angulatus, superne teres, foliatus sed aliquando subnudus, paniculato- 
ramosus, ramis plurimis gracillimis erecto-patentibus 5-20 cm. longis. 
Folia herbacea, utrinque obscure reticulata, margine minute vel grosse 
dentata; dentes in setis minutis 2-4 mm. longis producti ; radicalia 
conferta vel pauca, laxe patentia, petiolata, petiolo 5 cm. longo, 
complanato; lamina 10-17 cm. longa, 2-3 cm. lata, spatulata, obovata 
vel oblonge-lanceolata, apice rotundata vel obtusa, basin versus paulo 
angustata ; caulina remota, patentia vel ascendentia, vix amplexicaulia, 
oblonga vel aliquaudo subpanduriformia, ssepius hastata. Capitula 
plurima, '8-1-2 cm. diametro. Involucri segmenta 5-10, patula, acuta 
vel acuminata, carinata, vix nervata. Calycis dentes 0-5 mm. longge, 
acutae vel mucronatae. Fructus muricatus vel saepe muricato-costatus. 
Glabrous 1-3 ft. high. Stem erect, slender, angular at the base, terete 
above, leafy but occasionally subnude, paniculately branched from below 
the middle ; branches many, 2-10 in. long, very slender, erectly spreading. 
Leaves herbaceous, obscurely reticulated on both sides, margin minutely 
or coarsely triangularly toothed, with bristle-like points 1-2 lines long ; 
radical crowded or few, laxly spreading, petiolate; petiole 1-2 in. long, 
flattened ; blade 5-8 in. long, 1-1^ in. broad, spathulate, obovate-cuneate 
or oblong lanceolate, rounded or obtuse at the apex, tapering from near 
the middle to the base ; cauline distant, spreading or ascending, scarcely 
amplexicaul, oblong or occasionally slightly panduriform, subhastate at 
the base. Flower-heads usually many, in. in diam. Segments of the 
involucre 5-10, spreading, acute or acuminate, keeled, scarcely veined. 
Calyx-teeth i line long, acute or mucronate. Fruit muricate or muricately 
ridged. A. amatymhica, Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. III. 7, 1878 ; Engler 
in Pflanzenwelt Ost. Afr. C. 298, 1895 ; Beauvard in Bull. Soc. Geneva 
III. iii. 134, t. 11, 1911 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. XL. 75, 1911 
(not Ecklon and Zeyher). A. anatymbica, Engler in Engl, and Drude's 
Yeg. der Erde IX. 1, i. 372, t. 314, 1910. 
