334 COMPOSITZ (Harv.) [ Othonna. 
from the axil of the uppermost leaf); inv. sc. about 8, oblong, acute ; 
achenes silky. 
Has. Zwarteberg, Zeyher! 3048. (Herb. Sond.) 
Notwithstanding its apparently distinct characters, I propose this species with 
much hesitation ; the foliage closely resembling that of the narrow-leaved forms of O. 
parviflora, from which the habit and inflorescence separate it. Stems, including the 
peduncle, about 6 inches long. Leaves 1-14 in. long, 1-3 lines wide. Heads as in 
O. parviflora. 
§ 3. Panicunata#. (Sp. 15-21.) 
15. 0. parviflora (Linn. Mant. 89); suffruticose, erect or ascending, 
glabrous (or the axils woolly), subsimple ; stem leafy below, peduncu- 
loid and loosely panicled above ; leaves very variable in shape, tapering 
much to the base, subdecurrent, sessile or subpetioled, coriaceous, thick, 
veinless or nearly so, cuneate-obovate, cuneate-lanceolate or linear- 
lanceolate, either entire or coarsely few-toothed toward the apex ; 
pedicels long ; inv. sc. 7-8, oblong, acute ; achenes silky-villous. Zh. / 
Cap. 720. DC. 1. ¢. 476. Senecio rigens, Linn. 
Var. a. dentata; leaves cuneate-obovate, coarsely 3-5-toothed. O. quinquedentata, 
DC.! l. c. 474, excl. syn. O. Eckloniana, DC. l. c. 476, ex pte. Zey.! 3049. 
Var. 8. bupleuroides; lvs. oblong-cuneate or ellipt. lanceolate, entire. O. bupleu- 
roides, DC. l.c. 475. 
Var. y. longifolia; Ivs, linear-lanceolate or linear-elongate, entire or 2-3-toothed. 
O. longifolia, DC. 1. c. 476; and O. leptophylla, DC. l. c. 477. ; 
Var. 5. depauperata; dwarf, 6-8 in. high, leafy at base; leaves linear-lanceolate, 
tapering at base, acute, entire or unidentate. 0. Eckloniana, ex pte. in Hb. Ecklon. 
O. nudata?? DC. 1. ¢. 473. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
Has. Common about Capetown and on the Cape Flats. Stellenbosch, Draken- 
stein, &c. EB. § Z.! Drege! Uitenhage, Zey.! 3047. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
_ 2-24 f. high. Leaves 13-24 in. long, 4—3 in. wide ; in var. y. 3-4 in. long, 4-5 
lines wide, always opaque, thick, and drying dark. All the above forms grow 
together, and pass gradually one into the other. 
_16. 0. quinquedentata (Th.! Cap. 720); suffruticose, erect, glabrous, 
virgate, subsimple ; stem closely leafy below, pedunculoid and loosely 
panicled at the summit; leaves cuneate-oblong, sessile, half-clasping, 
and subdecurrent, coarsely or obsoletely 5-toothed near the apex, sub- 
coriaceous, obviously midribbed and penninerved, callous-margined ; 
pedicels elongate, subumbellate ; inv. sc. 7-8, oblong, acute ; achenes 
suilky-villous. O. subumbellata, DC.! l.c. 474. 
Has. C: Thunberg! Sieber! R., Drege! erb. Th., Hk., Sd. 
Stem panes high, robust, but org er ns a 5-6 in. long, ee in. wide, 
of thinnish but tough substance, bluntish, mucronulate ; the shallow teeth callous- 
tipped. The lesser divisions of the panicles are imperfectly umbellate. A leaf and 
partial infl. of O. subwnbellata, DC. (in Hb. Sd.) are undistinguishable from Thun- 
berg’s plant: “ O. quinquedentata,” DC. is our O. parviflora, var. dentata. 
_1%. 0. pluridentata (DC.! 1. c. 474) ; suffruticose, erect, glabrous, 
virgate, subsimple ; stem closely leafy below, pedunculoid and loosely 
panicled above; leaves oblongo-lanceolate, acute, the upper ones clasping 
and adnate, the lower more and more strongly decurrent, coarsely few 
or several toothed beyond the middle, membranous, midribbed and 
penninerved, veiny, callous-edged ; pedicels long ; inv. se. 7-8, oblong, 
acute ; achenes silky-villous. Also 0, grandidentata, DC. l. c. 
