Othonna.] COMPOSIT ( Harv.) 339 
faintly 3-nerved, entire or minutely denticulate, the margin thickened 
and subreflexed ; peduncle twice as long as the leaves, one-headed ; iny. 
lobes 5, very broad ; rays?; achenes? Zh./ Cap. 719. DC. l. ¢. 479. 
Has. Bockland’sberg, Thunberg/ (Herb. Th.) 
Stem and branches 7 in. diameter, with a pale-brown or fulyous, glossy bark. 
Leaves jin. long, 4-5 lines wide. Pedune.1}in.long. Heads small, few-flowered. 
35. 0. minima (DC.! 1. c. 479); caudex very short, fleshy, woolly at 
the crown; leaves from the crown, several, rosulate, obovate-flabelliform, 
at base cuneate, entire, and tapering into a petiole, at the apex rounded 
and sharply toothed; pedune. scape-like, filiform, one-headed (or forked 
and 2—3-headed), 2—4 times longer than the leaves; inv. sc. 5; achenes 
hairy-villous. . 
Has. Giftberg, Drege! (Herb. Sond.) 
Allied to 0. cacalioides, but differing in its very short, tuberous stem, and sharply 
toothed leaves, Perhaps in more advanced specimens the stem might be longer. 
Leaves on nearly uncial petioles, ¢ in. long, 4 in. wide. Pedune. 2-4 in. long. 
Raised in Hamburg Bot. garden from Drege’s seeds. 
§ 5. Scaprcerz. (Sp. 36-41.) 
36. 0. Natalensis (Sch. Bip., in Bot. Zeit. XX VII. p. 771); herba- 
ceous, glabrous; root tuberous, prolonged upwards into a thick root- 
stock, woolly at the crown; leaves from the crown, many, rosulate, 
oblong or oblongo-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, much attenuated to the 
base, with woolly axils, quite entire, coriaceous, midribbed, nerveless, 
margined ; stem scapelike, nude or with 1-2 bracts, once or twice forked 
or corymbose at summit; pedicels long; inv. sc. about 8, lanceolate, 
concrete at base; rays 8, yellow; achenes shortly pubescent; pappus 
tufo-fulvous. Walp. Rep. 6, p. 275. 
Has. Natal, Krauss! 442. British Caffraria, 7. Cooper, 299. (Herb. D., Hk.) 
This has something the look of Senecio coronatus. Leaves 4-5 inches long, 14-2 
in. — thickish, opaque. Pedunc. 6-12 inches high. Rays twice as long as the 
inyolucre. 
37. 0. retrorsa _ 1. ce. 479); caudex suberect, simple or multifid 
woolly and clothed with the reflexed bases of old leaves; axils very 
woolly; leaves crowded round the apices, rosulate, oblongo-spathulate 
or linear-spathulate, narrowed to the base, subacute, rigid, thin, promi- 
nently netted-veined on both sides, margined with spreading or recurved 
cilia; scapes erect, striate, forked or loosely sub-corymbose, pedicels 
long, nude; inv. scales and rays about 8; achenes silky villous; pappus 
: short. 
Var. 8. linearifolia; leaves smaller and narrower, almost linear. 
Has. Little Namaqualand, Drege! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Caudices 2-4 inches high, nearly 1 in. thick, Leaves 2-3 inches long, 5-61. wide; 
in 8. about 2 lines wide. Scape 6-10 inches long, corymbose, few-headed. 
38. 0. Zeyheri (Sond.); caudex and leaves as in O. retrorsa; scapes 
erect, scarcely striate, corymbulose, few-headed, pedicels short; inv. sc. 
and rays 5; achenes ? 
Has. §. Africa, Zeyher, 996. (Herb. Sond.) 
Of this I have seen only very poor specimens, So far as I can judge, it merely 
: 22” 
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