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smooth. A. ciliaris, Engler in Engler and Drude's Veg. der Erde IX. i. i. 
453, t. 381, 1910 (not Delaroche). 
South Africa. Natal: Near Greytown, 3,000-4,000 ft., Wood, 5,985 ! 
On a hill near Van Eeenen, Wood, 5630 ! Newcastle, Wood, 6655 ! 
Transvaal : In swampy ground of the Umlomati Valley, Barberton, 
Galpin, 1290 ! Hoggeveld, Page's Hotel, Behmann, 6849 ! Swazieland : 
High Veld near Dalriach, 4,400 ft.. Bolus, 11,919 ! 
The foliose slender stems, corymbosely-branched and usually 
scaberulous ultimate branchlets, characterise this species. 
5. A. LONGiFOLiA, E. Meyer in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Doc, 163 (1843). 
A highly variable plant 1-2^ ft. high, entirely glabrous, with a slender 
terete stem usually leafy towards the base, more often subnude above, 
paniculately or corymbosely branched towards the apex ; branches few, 
2- 3 in. long, ascending or spreading, usually bracteate and rigid. Leaves 
subcoriaceous, serrate-setose, the serratures distant or close, with setae 
1-4 lines long : radical few, spreading or ascending, shortly petiolate, 
2^-6 in. long, ^-1 in. broad, narrowly oblong, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 
obtuse or rounded at the apex, tapering at the base ; lower cauline leaves 
3- 4 in. long, amplexicaul, usually distant or rarely congested, adpressed, 
occasionally imbricate, with more coarsely serrated margins and longer 
setae. Flower-heads few, |-f in. in diameter. Involucral segments 10, 
rigid, unequal or occasionally equal, acuminate, keeled. Calyx-teeth J-^ 
line long, broadly ovate, subacute or mucronate, often papillate. Styles 
scarcely exceeding the calyx-teeth. Fruit entirely muricate or muricately 
ridged. Beauvard in Bull. Soc. Bot. Geneva III. iii. 134, t. 11 (1911). 
South. Africa. Strockenstroom Div. : In marshy places on the Kat 
Berg, 4,000-5,000 ft., Drege ! Komgha: Between Zandplaat and Komgha, 
Drege ! Griqualand East Div. : On the mountains near Clydesdale, 
Tyson, 2736 and 1277 ! Mount Frere, 4,300 ft. Schlechter, 6407 ! 
Pondoland : Bachman, 942 ! Zululand : Gerrard, 551 ! Natal, Drakens- 
berg Eange, Behmann, 6971 ! Near Charlestown, 5,000-6,000 ft.. Wood, 
5615 ! Clairmont near Durban, 100 ft., Wood, 211 ! Near Durban, 
Kratiss, 170 ! Plant, 7 ! Sutherland I Howick, Junod I Between Grey- 
town and Newcastle, Wilms, 1995 ! Transvaal : In grassy places on the 
Houtbosch Eange, 7,000 ft., Schlechter, 4724 ! Mountain-sides of the 
Saddleback Eange near Barberton, 4,000-5,000 ft., Galjpin, 818 ! 
var. ANGUSTA, Diimmer, var. nov. 
Folia radicalia 10-16, conferta, petiolata, petiolo angusto 2*5-10 cm. 
longo ; lamina 5-15*2 cm. longa, 6-12 mm. lata, lanceolata vel lineare- 
