Othonna. | COMPOSIT (Harv.) 331 
Has. Klipplaat River, Drege! Graaf Reynet, Zey.! Brack R., Cradock, Burke 
and Zey.! 990. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
1-2 feet high, with purplish stems and pale pedunc. and foliage. Leaves 1-14 inch 
long, their lobes 6-8 lines long, 1—} line diameter. Pedunc. straw-colour, 2-3 times 
forked ; pedicels 14-24 inches long, 
2. 0. leptodactyla (Harv.); shrubby, erect, glabrous; branches 
angular, striate, virgate ; lateral twigs laxly leafy, ending in short or 
longish one-headed peduncles ; leaves dimorphous, some linear-elongate, 
acuminate, quite entire, others at base on each side closely pinnated 
with 3-4 linear-subulate lobes, with a very long, linear-subulate, medial 
lobe ; inv. lobes and rays about 8 ; achenes not seen. Oth. frutescens ? 
Drege! in Herb, 
Has. Betw. Kromrivier, by Piquetberg and Bergvalei, Drege! (Herb. Hk.) 
This has something the habit of O. ramulosa, but longer and more distantly leafy 
lateral twigs, and very dissimilar foliage. Most of the leaves are pinnate-lobed at 
base ; a few here and there quite entire, 1-13 inch long, } line wide. The pinnate 
portion is 3-4 lines long; each lobe 3-9 lines, and very patent; the terminal lobe 
1-1} inch long. Heads as in O. ramulosa. 
3. 0. coronopifolia (Linn. Sp. 1310); stem shrubby, erect, glabrous, 
flexuous or forked; leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, entire or 
irregularly few-toothed, tapering at base, acuminate, coriaceous, thick, 
nearly nerveless; pedunc. ending the branches, nude, one-headed, or 
branched and few-headed, the heads on very long pedicels; inv. se. 
7~8, connate at base, oblong; achenes silky-villous. Zh./ Cap. 719. 
DC. 11. ¢. 475. O. Bergert, Spr. 
Has. Cape, Thunbd.! Boivin, 615. Near Capetown, £.GZ.! Salt River, W.H.H. 
Piquetberg, Olifants R., and Kl, Namaqualand, Drege! (Herb. Th., D., Sd., Hk.) 
“4-2 ft. high, bushy. Leaves 14-23 in. long, 3-5 1. wide, some entire, some with 
small, some with on teeth. Pedunc. 3-6 inches long, mostly simple. 
Rays many-striate. are 4 folia in Herb, Thunb.; of these, No. 1 belongs to 
O. arborescens; No. 2, 3, 4, to O. coronopifolia. , 
4. 0. ramulosa (DC.! 1. c. 477); shrubby, erect, glabrous, the axils 
woolly; branches subangular, virgate ; lateral twigs leafy at base, end- 
ing in short or longish, nude, one-headed peduncles ; leaves sessile, 
oblong or lance-oblong, one-nerved, subpungent mucronate, thick, rigid, 
quite entire or 1-2-toothed; inv. lobes and rays about 8; achenes 
puberulous. 
Has. Kendo and Konstapel, Drege! Driefontein, Z. & Z./ Pinaars Kloof, 
Burke § Zeyher! Zey.! 991. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
2-3 feet high, with very rigid stems and foliage ; branches 1-2 ft. long, alternately 
leafy, with axillary, short, flowering twigs. Leaves }-j-1 in. long, 2-3 lines wide, 
either broad at base, ‘or the lower ones tapering, and almost lanceolate. Pedunc. 
4-14 in. long. I have not seen ripe achenes. 
5. 0. mucronata (Harv.); shrubby, erect, glabrous, the axils woolly ; 
branches subangular, virgate; lateral twigs leafy at base, ending in 
nude, simple or forked, 1-2-headed peduncles ; leaves sessile, obovate- 
oblong, cuspidato-mucronate, narrowed and often sharply unidentate 
at each side at base, one-nerved, rigid, entire; inv. lobes and rays about 
8 ; achenes pubescent. 
