Othonna. | COMPOSIT (Harv.) 327 
2~3, at the ends of the branches; inv. ovate at base, 12-fid, the lobes 
acute; marg, achenes pubescent, their pappus shorter than the involucre; 
pappus of the disc-fl. of few bristles.” DC. J. ¢. 
Has. Mierenkasteel, Drege. (Unknown to me.) 
**6 inches high. Leaves 12-15 lines long, 2-31. wide. Fl. heads 4-5 1. long and 
wide. Pappus rufous.” DC. l. ¢. 
26. D. semicalva (DC. 1.c. 473); “herbaceous, erect, weak, glabrous; 
branches striate ; leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, at each end tapering, 
quite entire ; heads axillary, 2-3 on long pedicels; inv. ro—12-fid; 
[ray] achenes terete, closely silky-villous ; those of the dise without 
pappus.” DC. 1. . 
Has. Langevalley and Olifant’s R., Drege. (Unknown to me.) 
27. D. Gymnodiscus (DC. 1. c. 473); herb., erect, glabrous; woolly 
at the crown; branches terete ; cauline leaves sessile, round-eared and 
clasping at base, oblong or obovate, subacute, quite entire ; branches 
1-2-headed, heads $ as long as the pedicels; inv. 10-12-fid; marg. 
achenes thick, terete, striate, closely silky, their pappus copious, reddish, 
twice as long as the involucre ; disc-achenes without pappus, or with 
1-2 bristles only, 
Has. Near Port Elizabeth, £. & 7.4 (Herb. Sond.) 
Very similar to small specimens of D. Lingua, but easily known by the calvous 
disc-achenes ; I sometimes find one or two bristles on the outer ones. 
(Imperfectly known.) 
D. miser (Harv.); glabrous, stem shrubby-carnose, dichotomously 
much-branched, twiggy; leaves tufted at the ends of the twigs (mature- 
leaves not seen), obovate? tapering at base, lobulate? fleshy; pedicels 
terminal, very short, solitary; inv. sc. about 5, narrow-oblong, acute, 
connate to the middle; achenes closely-silky. 
; Han. Rhinosterkop, Beaufort, Burike $ Zeyt Ley! 988. aw. Hk., Sd.) 
_ small, intricately- ched, ’ 3 twigs i | prong ending i 
a tuft of leaves. Foie of leaves eaetita. Pedicels 4 in Inv. 4-5 lines long, 
cylindrical, few-flowered. Seems to be near D, Arbuscula, but the achenes are silky. 
D. undulosa (DC. 1. c. 472); “herbaceous, glabrous; root?; stem 
terete; flexuous ; leaves cordate, amplexicaul, acuminate, sinuate, undu- 
late, the uppermost suborbicular, dentato-sinuate ; pedicels nude, 
one-headed ; marg. cor. truncate, very short; achenes multistriate, 
subpuberulous.” DC. 1. ¢. 
Has. Hexriviersberg, Drege. (Unknown to me.) 
Heads radiate ; ray-flowers ligulate, female ; disc-/l. male, tubular, 
5-toothed. Recept. convex or subconical, honey-combed, sometimes 
pilose. nv. sc. uniseriate, never calycled, more or less concrete before 
opening, and strictly valvate. Style of male-flowers simple, tipped with 
a hispid cone. Anthers rounded at base. Achenes of the ray-tl. oval, 
hairy or glabrous, with very copious, bristle-shaped pappus in many 
