336 COMPOSITA (Harv.) [ Othonna. 
21. 0. viminea (E. Mey.); shrubby, erect, glabrous; branches virgate ; 
leaves sessile, remote, linear-terete, acute, quite entire, erect; “ panicle 
laxly branched, few-headed; inv. sc. 5-6, concrete at base; rays few, 
shorter than the involucre, and scarcely longer than their own styles; 
achenes glabrous.” DC. /. ¢. 
Has. Uitvlugt, Drege? (Herb. Sond.) 
An imperfect specimen, without flowers, only seen by me. Leaves 1-14 in. long, 
not 4 line diam. Fl. heads very small. 
§ 4. Carnosm. (Sp. 22-35.) 
22. 0. cylindrica (DC.! 1. c. 477, excl. syn. Th.); shrubby-carnose, 
glabrous; branches terete; leaves scattered, linear-elongate, semiterete, 
fleshy, glaucous, acute, tapering at base, spreading; pedune. terminal, 
bearing a few- or several-headed, branching corymb, pedicels slender, 
long; iny. scales 8-9, narrow-oblong, membr. edged, separate nearly to 
the base ; rays as long as invol., theirachenes glabrous. Cacalia cylin- 
drica, Lam, DC. Pl. grass. t. 48. O. tenuissima, Haw, Succ. p. 315+ 
aoe Ohba R., Drege! Clanwilliam, Eck. Heerelogement, Zey.! 948. (Herb. 
‘A loosely teak, forking shrub, with the habit of Senecio longifolius; older 
branches bare and cicatricised. Leaves 14-3 in. long or more, 1 line wide. Pedunc. 
4-6 in. long. A specimen in Hb. Sd. from Drege, marked ‘‘O. cylindrica, b.” belongs 
to Senecio longifolius. Zeyher’s 948 is almost intermediate with O. carnosa. Zeyher’s 
947 (Hb. Sd.), in bad condition, seems to belong to this species. 
23. 0. carnosa (Less. Syn. 88); shrubby-carnose, glabrous; branches 
terete; leaves linear-terete, fleshy, acute or subacute, tapering at base ; 
pedune. terminal, elongate, ending inafew-headed, subcorymbose panicle, 
pedicels very long; inv. sc. 6-8, oblong, membr-edged; rays revolute; 
achenes glabrous. DC.0. ¢. 478. Cineraria cacalioides, Linn. f. Th! 
Cap. 670. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Eastern Distr., Burchell. Uitenhage and Albany, £.¢Z.! 
Zey. 3036, 3039. (Herb. Th., Hk., Sd.) 
Similar to O. cylindrica, but with thicker, more fusiform, and usually shorter leaves, 
longer pedunc., and fewer fl. heads. The ray-fl. said by DC. to be very short and 
narrow, must on his specimens have been immature: I find them nearly as in O 
cylindrica, but commonly revolute. Leaves 14-2 in. long, 14-2 1. diam. 
24. 0. crassifolia (Harv., non L., nec. E.M.); glabrous; stem slender, 
weak, suffruticose at base, irregularly branched ; leaves fleshy, subterete ? 
linear-oblong, mostly acute or mucronate, sometimes obtuse, either seat- 
tered or crowded at intervals in imperfect whorls, with bare spaces between ; 
pedune. terminal, subcorymbose, few-headed, pedicels very long and 
slender ; inv. sc, about 8, oblong, margined; achenes glabrous. 0. 
Jilicaulis, Eckl. Fl. Cap. 295, non Jacq. 
Has. Uitenhage, Z. § Z.! Bethelsdorp, Zey.! 3040. (Herb. Sond.) 
Remarkable for its leaves being collected at intervals into whorls ; they are PTO 
bably terete, 1-1} in. long, 3 lines diam., with immersed nerves and veins. All the 
eee seem to be acute or mucronate. Pedunc. 3-6 in, long, very slender, 4-5 
d, pedicels 2-3 in. long. 
25. 0. sedifolia (DC.!1.c. 479); suffruticose, erect, forking, glabrous; 
