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Oligodora. | COMPOSIT# (Harv.) 303 
A small annual, more slender and divaricate than R. sessiliflorwm, from which it 
is chiefly distinguished by its peduncled heads. Pedunc. 9-1 inch long. Leaves 
sometimes tomentose, as well as gland-hispid. 
16. R. pumila (Th.! Cap. 639); heads on peduncles thrice their 
length, campanulate, many-flowered ; rays longer than the involucre. 
Rhynchops.pumilum, DC.! l.c.290. Athanasia pumila, Linn. f. Eclopes 
pumila, Less.! Syn. 382. 
Has. Brandvalley, Thunberg! Clanwilliam, Ecklon! Kl. Namaqualand, Drege! 
A. Wyley! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) : Mas 
Annual, branched from the base, the lateral branches divaricate or decumbent, 
simple or branched near the apex. Leaves 3-3} inch long, flat or involute, linear, 
gland-hispid. Mature invol. broader than its length; the outer scales rounded, 
inner oblong, all very blunt and membrane-edged. Rays broad, bright yellow, 
twice as long as the involucre. 
( Doubtful species of the section Eclopes.) 
R. apiculata (DC.); “leaves elliptic-lanceolate, on both sides gla- 
brescent, coriaceous, many-herved, tipped with a rigid, subsphacelate 
mucro; achenes of the disc with the inner margin subciliate.” DC. 
Eclopes apiculata, DC. l. c. 289. 
Has. Stony hills between Driekoppen, Bokkeveld and Hexrivier ; and the Zwarte- 
berg, near Klaarstroom, Drege! (Herb. Sond., sine flore. ) 
This looks like a more glabrous state of R. guinquenervis, so far as I can judge 
from a branch, without flowers, in Hb. Sd. 
R styphelioides (DC.); “quite glabrous ; leaves lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, rigid, many-nerved beneath, the upper leaves equalling the head.” 
DC. Eclopes styphelioides, DC. l. e. 289+ 
Has. Near Gauritz R., Burchell, 4697. (Unknown to us.) 
CIV.? OLIGODORA, DC. 
Heads 5-fi., homogamous, fl. 5-toothed, tubular, perfect. Znv. imbri- 
cate, subtrigonous, the scales appressed, the innermost with the margin 
clasping round the outer achenes. ecept. narrow, paleaceo-fimbrilli- 
ferous, the scales folding round the achenes. Sty/e-branches included, 
obtuse and pilose at the apex. Anthers tailed? Achenes cylindrical, 
smooth. Pappus of 5, ovate, short, toothed scales. DC. Prodr. 6. p. 282. 
An erect, branching, glabrous suffrutex. Leaves alternate, thickish, sessile, 
toothed, the teeth on each side 2-3 and a terminal one, mucronate. Heads corymb- 
ulose at the ends of the branches, on very short pedicels. Scales or bractez on the 
pedicels short, acute, spreading. Corolla (probably?) white. DC. The name is from 
odvyos, few, and Swpor, a gift; alluding to the few flowers of the head. 
1, 0, dentata (DC. 1. c.) 
Has. Zeederberg, Drege. (v. frust. in Hb. Sond.) 
Of this I have seen only a minute fragment, and can add nothing to the above 
description, copied from De Candolle. Possibly it may be an Athanasia ; it seems 
to differ merely in the anthers, if these be correctly described. 
CV. OSMITES, Linn. 
Heads many-fl., radiate ; ray-fl. ligulate, female ; dise-fl. tubular, 5- 
toothed, perfect. Recept. flat, covered with scarious palee, equalling 
