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Othonna.| COMPOSIT& (Harv.) 337 
leaves either opposite or alternate, ovoid, ellipsoid or shortly cylindrical, 
fleshy, quite entire, obtuse or subacute, nerveless, minutely petioled ; 
pedicels terminal, one-headed (or forked and 2-headed), much longer 
than the leaves ; inv. sc. 8~9, oblong, membr. edged, connate at base : 
rays 10-12, longer than the inv.; achenes glabrous. 
Has, Namaqual., Drege! A. Wyley! Gamka R., Burke § Zey.! (Hb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
A minute shrublet. 3-6 inches high, repeatedly forked. Leaves 3-7 lines long, 
2-3 in. diam. Pedunce. 3-4 in. long. In Burke and Zeyher’s specimens the leaves 
are rather longer and more acute than usual. : 
26. 0. obtusiloba (Harv.); half-shrubby, carnose; the branches nude 
below, with woolly cicatrices, twigs leafy ; leaves linear, fleshy, obtuse, 
on each side t-2-lobed, the lobes oblong or linear, very blunt, margins 
strongly reflexed, veins not visible; pedunc. terminal, forked or sub- 
corymbose, 3—5-headed ; iny. scales 5, oblong, concrete at base ; rays 
5, multistriate ; achenes? 
Has. Knakerberg, Zeyher! 997. (Herb. Sond., D.) 
The specimens are incomplete, but seem to indicate a small, succulent half-shrub 
or perhaps shrub. Leaves 14-2 inches long, 14-3 lines wide, mostly with a pair of 
opposite lobes in the middle, occasionally with a smaller pair of lobes or teeth. The 
lobes 3-9 in. long. 
27. 0. quercifolia (DC.! 1. c. 478); glabrous, erect ; stem suffruticose- 
carnose, leaves tapering at base into a cuneate petiole, obtuse, pinnatifid, 
the lobes on each side 3-4, oblong, mucronate ; pedune. terminal, bearing 
a compound, many-headed corymb ; pedicels long, slender ; iny. lobes 
5-6, oblong; achenes glabrous. 
Has. Olifant R. and Brackfontein, Z.¢ Z./ (Herb. Sond.) 
Leaves 2-4 inches long, }-1 in. wide; the lobes 4-8 lines long. Pedunce. 3-6 in, 
long; pedicels about uncial. Rays many-lined, yellow. 
28. 0. triplinervia ett l.c. 478); glabrous; stem shrubby-carnose, 
short, subsimple or forked, the lower part nude, cicatricised ; cicatrices 
glabrous ; leaves crowded toward the apices, obovate, obtuse, tapering 
at base into a slender petiole, drying thin, from the middle 3-nerved, 
netted-veined, quite entire or repand ; pedunc. terminal, loosely corym- 
bose, few or several headed, pedicels very long; inv. scales and rays 
about 5; achenes villous. ‘ 
Has. Konab and Kat R., £. ¢ Z.! Howison’s Poort, Zeyher! 3037, 3038, H. 
Hutton! (Herb. D., Sd.) 
Stem thick and fleshy. Leaves, with their petiole, 24-3 inches long, 1 inch wide, 
slightly fleshy when recent, almost membranous, and pellucid if carefully dried. 
Pedunc. somewhat longer than the leaves ; pedicels 3-4 in. long. Rays bright- 
yellow, conspicuous, 
29. O. dentata (Linn. sp. pl. vol. 1, p. 926); glabrous; stem shrubby- 
carnose ; leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, subrosulate, 
obovate, cuneate at base, sessile (not in the least clasping), either sharply 
and coarsely toothed, or denticulate or subentire, midribbed, faintly 
nerved.; pedune, terminal, elongate, nude, loosely corymbose or pani- 
cled at the apex, several headed ; pedicels long, rising from minute, 
subulate bracts ; inv. scales about 8, acute, membr. edged, connate ; 
achenes villous. DC. l.c. 478. Burm. Afr. t. 59. 
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