332 coMPOSITz (Harv.) [ Othonna. 
Has. Langvalley, Zey./ 998. (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
Very near 0. ramulosa, but with much broader, and differently shaped leaves. 
Leaves 1 in. long, 5-61. wide, probably glaucous, Pedune. 3-5 inches long. 
6. 0.2 trinervia (DC. 1. c. 477); “shrubby, glabrous; branches 
striate with lines decurrent from the leaves; leaves lanceolate, cuneate 
at base, 3-nerved, mucronate, entire or sharply unidentate at each side ; 
pedicels subracemose at the apices of the branches, thrice as long as 
the leaves; inv. 7-8-lobed; [ray-fl. wnknown]; achenes glabrous.” 
DC. 1. ¢. 
Has. Carroo, Drege. (Unknown to me). 
DC. is uncertain whether this may not prove to be a Doria. 
7. 0. spinescens (DC. 1. c. 476); shrubby, glabrous; branches terete, 
whitish, divergent, mostly spine-tipped ; leaves sessile, linear, or linear- 
cuneate, tapering at base, mucronate, glaucous, nerveless, thick, entire, 
{or here and there subdentate] ; fl. twigs attenuated upwards, subnude, 
one-headed ; inv. lobes and rays about 8; ray achenes glabrous. DC. 
l..c., excl., var. 8. 
Has. Betw. Droogeheuvel and Jackal’sfont., Drege. (Herb. Hk.) 
Specimens from Drege (Herb. Sond.) marked “ O. spinescens a. and B.” from 
Sneeuwberg, Compasberg and Rhinosterberg, belong to Doria rigida ; except one, 
which I venture to describe as O. pteronioides. In Herb. Hk. is a specimen of the 
true O. spinescens, but the fl. heads have been eaten by insects; and also one of 
“var 8.,” which is merely Doria rigida. , 
8. 0. pteronioides (Harv.); shrubby, glabrous, divaricately branched, 
the twigs ending in rigid spines ; branches terete; leaves minutely 
petiolate, elliptic-oblong, very obtuse, entire or obscurely unidentate, 
thick, nerveless ; fl. twigs one-headed ; inv. lobes 6-8? ray achenes ? 
Has. Cape, Drege/ (Herb. Sond.) . 
: _ Mixed with specimens of Doria rigida. One ligulate fl. remains to show that this 
is an Othonna. In foliage it differs so remarkably from O. spinescens, DC., that 
I venture to keep it distinct. The achenes in the only specimen seen have been 
destroyed by insects. 
9. 0. pallens (DC.! 1. c. 476); shrubby, erect, glabrous, much- 
branched and twiggy; branches terete, pale; leaves sessile, with a 
decurrent line from each side of the base, linear, coriaceous, glaucous, 
smooth, subobtuse, nerveless, quite entire; axils woolly ; heads ending 
the twigs, solitary, very shortly pedicelled; inv. oblong, 5-lobed, lobes 
acute, membrane-edged ; rays 5, very short, scarcely exserted ; achenes 
silky-villous, : 
Has. Sneeuwherg, ! Dr. Wallich! - / Queenstown 
Flats, Mrs. F. W. Detar edie (Herb. D., We Say nana, 
1-2 feet high, rigid, all parts very pale. Leaves $-1 in. long, 2 1. wide, slightly 
concave. Pedicels ¢-4 in. long; inv. 4-5 1. long. Rays inconspicuous. Inter- 
mediate in character between Doria and 5 Retr . - 
10. 0. osteospermoides (DC.! 1. c. 474); shrubby, erect, glabrous ; 
branches terete, flexuous, cicatrised, the twigs leafy ; leaves obovate 
or oblong-obovate, tapering at base into a petiole, either entire or coarsely 
3toothed at the apex, glaucous, coriaceous, glossy ; the teeth callous- 
