Gamolepis.| COMPOSIT (Haryv.) 157 
leaves crowded towards the ends of the branches, spreading, subpeti- 
olate, pinnati-partite, or pinnatifid, the lobes on each side 3-5, broadly 
linear or oblong-linear, flat, acute, nerved, the lower shorter or tooth- 
like ; pedune. slender, elongate ; invol. campanulate, its scales ovate 
or ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, several-nerved ; achenes obovate, bluntly 
rib-striate. 
_ Has. Eastern Districts, Burchell. 3641. Buffalo River, Drege, Pappe! Bosjes- 
man’s R., Uit., #.gZ.! Somerset, Mrs. F. W. Barber! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Apparently a shrub 2-3 ft. or more in height, the old branches denuded, the upper 
closely leafy. Leaves 13-2 inches long, the lobes 1—2 lines wide, the upper often 
confluent, erecto-patent. Pedunc. 4-5 inches long. Achenes dark-purplish.—The 
leaves are much more membranous and expanded than in other species ; not unlike 
those of Chrysanth. pinnatifidum. 
3. G. pectinata (Less. Syn. 251); glabrous, erect, closely leafy ; leaves 
coriaceous, nerveless, pinnati-partite, the segments on each side 2-3-4, 
linear, semiterete, mucronate ; pedunc. about twice as long as the leaves ; 
invol. campanulate, its scales lanceolate-acuminate, faintly 3-4-nerved, 
concrete to the middle ; achenes densely tuberculated, subglobose-obo- 
vate. DC.l.c. 40. : 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! (Herb. Th., marked “ Othonna abrotanifolia, 1”). 
This has the aspect of @. brachypoda, but the leaves are uniformly pinnatisect, 
with longer lobes, and much more closely set ; not to speak of the tuberculated 
achenes. I have only seen the solitary specimen in Hb. Th, 
4. G. brachypoda (DC. Lc. 40); erect, subdichotomous, flexuous, 
closely leafy, with woolly tufts in the axils of the young leaves, other- 
wise glabrous ; leaves coriaceous, thick, nerveless, mucronate, polymor- 
phous, either linear-entire, or with 1-2 lateral teeth; or 3-forked, with 
subulate, lateral lobes ; or pinnati-partite, with 2-3 pair of pinnules ; 
pedune. scarcely longer than the leaves ; invol. campanulate, its scales 
lanceolate-acuminate, 3-4-nerved, concrete to the middle ; achenes 
striate. Osteospermum heterophyllum, DC. l. c. 467. 
Var. 8, integrifolia; most of the leaves quite entire, a few unidentate. 
Van. 7, tridens; most of the leaves 3-forked or 3-fid. Zey./ 861. 
Has. Districts of Albany, Drege, Burchell; Mts. near Grahamstown, in several 
places, Zey./ 2801. Var. B, from Dr. Pappe ! without Hab. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
2-3 feet high, irregularly much branched, the old branches bare of leaves, the 
upper densely covered with them. Leaves extremely variable, even on the same 
branch, from 4-7 inch long, about 4 line wide, erecto-patent or squarrose. Pedunce. 
rarely an inch long. Rays broad, twice as long as invol. or more. Achenes with 
many slender, longitudinal, raised striz. 8. is more robust and more densely leafy, 
with almost all the leaves linear. yy. may be mistaken for (. euryopoides, but is known 
by the axillary wool-tufts, and thicker, narrower, sharply-mucronate leaf-lobes. 
5. G. debilis (Harv.) ; stems many from a thick woody root, short, 
subsimple, slender; leaves rather sparse, pinnati-partite, spreading, the 
rachis and lobes narrow-linear, thickish, nerved beneath, subacute, the 
lobes 2—3-pair; pedunc. elongate; inv. scales lanceolate, acute, connate 
at base only ; ovary glabrous, smooth. G-. pectinata, var. Natalensis, 
Sch. B. (not of Less.) 
Has. Port Natal, Krauss/ 461. (Herb. D., Hk.) 
Stems, in the only specimens seen (which appear to be a growth after burning) 
