176 COMPOSIT (Harv.) [Otochlamys. 
Has. Near Uitenhage, Ecklon. 
‘* Leaves 7-8 lines long, nearly 1 line wide.” DC. Unknown to me; unless 
our Marasmodes Adenosolen be the same. 
LXIX. PEYROUSEA, DC. 
Heads many-fi., discoid, homogamous. Recept. flat, naked. Inv. cam- 
panulate, the scales in 2-3 rows, of sub-equal length, longer than the 
disc. Tube of the corolla flattened, 2-winged, the limb short, 4-lobed. 
Style-branches truncate. Achene flattened, with a thick marginal rim, 
glabrous, without pappus, similar. DC. Prodr. 6,76. Lapeyrousia, Th. ! 
Cap. 700. Less. Syn. 260 (non Pourr.) 
Virgate, sparingly branched shrubs, all parts clothed with appressed, silky, and 
silvery hairs. Leaves sessile, alternate, imbricate, oblongo-lanceolate, quite entire, 
callous-mucronate, midribbed, silky-tomentose. Heads in a terminal, leafy corymb, 
on short pedicels. Fl. golden yellow. Name in honour of La Peyrouse, the cele- 
brated and unfortunate circumnavigator. 
1, P. calycina (DC. 1. c. 77); inv. scales obtuse, with an evident 
scarious margin, even to the summit. Osmites calycina, Linn. Lapey- 
rousia calycina, Thunb.! Cap. p. 700. Relhania calycina, Poir. Lapey- 
rousia Thunbergu, Cass. 
Has. Houteniquas, 7h./ Bowie! Drege! Swellendam, FE. § Z., Georgetown, Dr. 
A. Prior! Tzitsikamma, Dr. Pappe! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
A tall shrub, 2-3 f. high, closely leafy to the summit; branches straight, a foot 
or more long. Leaves 1-14 inches long, silky, 4-5 lines wide. Heads 4 inch or 
more across, the inv. over-topping the disc. 
2. P. oxylepis (DC. 1. c.); “inv. scales acuminato-subulate, scarcely 
membrane-edged.” Cotula umbellata, Linn. f. suppl. 378. 
Has. Eastern districts, Burch. Oat. 5185 (fide DC.) 
‘* Heads few or sub-solitary.” Possibly a starved condition of P. calycina, 
LXX. OTOCHLAMYS, DC. 
Heads many-fl., discoid, heterogamous, all the flowers on toothlike, 
compressed pedicels; marginal fl. uniseriate, few, female, without corolla ; 
most of the flowers hermaphrodite. Corolla of the hermaphr. flowers 
tubular, 4-toothed, its tube widely winged, and produced at base into 
a broad, concave, ear-like spur, which completely enwraps the ovary 
and finally the achene! Inv. double, the outer of few, broad, herba- 
ceous, loose scales; the inner of few or many scarious, appressed scales. 
Recept. flat, without pales, but covered with the persistent, toothlike 
pedicels of the flowers. Achenes of the female, marginal flowers flattened, 
and bordered with a wide, membranous wing; of the disc-fl. oblong, 
wingless, but completely enwrapped in the earlike appendage of the 
corolla, Pappus none.—DC. Prodr. 6, p. 77. 
A small annual with opposite, entire, or pinnati-partite, slender lvs., and peduncled, 
terminal fl. heads. Fl. yellow. The habit that of Cotula, from which, however, the 
very remarkable form of the disc-flowers sufficiently separates it. Name from ovs, 
wros, an ear, and xAauvs a cloak; from the earlike appendix to the corolla, which 
wraps round the achene like a cloak. 
1. 0, Eckloniana (DC.! 1. c. 77). 
