326 COMPOSIT ( Harv.) [ Doria. 
erect or climbing ; root tuberous; radical leaves petioled, ovate or lan- 
ceolate, entire; cauline cordate-amplexicaul, oblong or lanceolate, acute 
or acuminate ; pedunc. terminal and axillary, one-headed ; achenes 
hispidulous; pappus rufous or purplish. DC./. c. 471. Othonna Lingua, 
Jacq. Hort. Scheenbr. t. 238. 
Var. a. Jacquini; cauline leaves lanceolate-taperpointed. (Hb. Sd.) 
Mg . latifolia; cauline leaves oblong or ovate, or ovato-lanceolate. (Herb. D., 
. Sd. 
Has. Cape Flats and Western Districts, a. Zeyher! 8. £. 5 Z.! W.H.H., §e. 
Like 0. perfoliata, but with reddish pappus and less pubescent achenes. The 
cauline leaves are, I fear, too variable to build a character upon ; but our vars. a. 
and £. look different in the specimens examined. 
21. D. chromocheta (DC. 1. c. 472); “herbaceous, glabrous, erect, 
much-branched; stem striate; cauline lvs. cordate-amplexicaul, broadly 
ovate, acutely mucronate, 3-nerved, entire; fl. branches forked, pedicels 
nude, one-headed; inv. sc. 10-12, concrete at base; ray-achenes glan- 
dular, minutely papulose, glabrous. DC. J. c. 
Has. Kl, Namaqualand, Drege! (Herb. Sd.) 
“ Pappus copious, dull yellowish-violet colour.” I have only seen a fragment of 
this ; it differs from D. perfoliata chiefly in its coloured pappus and glabrous achenes. 
22. D. linearifolia (DC. 1. c. 471); “herbaceous, glabrous, woolly on 
the crown and in the axils; root tuberous; stem erect, simple, naked 
and one-headed at the apex; leaves linear, quite entire, somewhat 
shorter than the stem; marg. corollas tubular, truncate, very short ; 
achenes glabrous.” DC. l. c. 
Has. Cape, in Hb. L’Her., fide DC. (Said to resemble Othonna linifolia.) 
23. D. Laureola (DC. 1.c. 472); herbaceous, glabrous, erect ; stem 
striate ; cauline leaves sessile, lanceolate, acute, somewhat shining, quite 
entire; pedicels from the axils of the upper leaves, longer than the leaf, 
one-headed, ina simple corymb ; inv. sc. 10-12, connate at base, oblong ; 
marg. achenes striate, glabrous. 
ee a ro Drege! (Herb. Sond.) 
I d 2 fi, : i = eli ide. 
ra 4 oo. y a leaf, and 2 : heads ; leaves tate long, 4-5 lines wide 
24. D, ramosa (DC. 1. c. 472); “herbaceous, erect, branched, gla- 
brous, glaucescent ; crown woolly ; branches striate; leaves sessile, - 
obtusely eared and half-clasping at base, lanceolate, acute, subundulate, 
entire ; pedicels 1-3, at the ends of the branches, longer than the leaf ; 
iny. about 12-cleft ; marg. achenes pubescent.” DC. 7. c. 
Has. Hexriviersberg, Drege. (Unknown to me.) * 
* A foot high. Lys. 2 in. long, 61. wide. Pappus whitish.” A specimen from 
Zeyher (Hb. Sd.) from the Langevalley, seems very near this, but is ae sree and 
has fewer inv. scales. I forbear to describe it as different, and am not sure whether 
it be the same, i 
25. D. tortuosa (DC. l. c. 472); “ herb., erect, b a 
collum and roots tuberous; stem compressed, subangular; 
linear-lanceolate, the uppermost obtusely somewhat eared ; pedicels 
