340 Composit (Harv.) [ Othonna. 
differs from 0. retrorsa in the smaller fl. heads and fewer scales of the involucre, if 
these characters be constant, 
39. 0. scapigera (Harv. Thes. t. 15); caudex short, simple or divided, 
woolly; axis woolly; leaves many from the crown, rosulate, linear or 
linear-lanceolate, acute, coriaceous, thick, one-nerved, veinless, quite 
entire and smooth-edged; scapes erect, simple, one-headed, with 1-2 
leaf-scales; inv. scales and rays 8-9; achenes (young) glabrous, 
Has. Natal, Dr. P. Sutherland! (Herb. D., Hk.) 
With the habit of 0. retrorsa, this has very different leaves and 1-headed peduncles. 
Leaves 14-2} inches long, 2 lines wide. Scapes 6-8 inches high. 
40. 0. auriculefolia (Lichtenst.! in Less. Linn!1831, p. 93); stemless 
(in 8, sub-caulescent) woolly at the crown; radical leaves petioled or 
subpetioled, oblong, glabrous, glaucous, sinuato-pinnatifid or eroso-den- 
tate, the lobes entire or denticulate ; scapes one-headed, as long or twice 
as long as the leaves; inv. campanulate, the scales 12-14, concrete to 
the middle, 3-nerved, membr. edged; rays 12-14, blue; achenes silky, 
they and the pappus fulvous. 0. eyanoglossa, O. lactucefolia and O. 
pieridioides, DC. 1. c. 481-482. 
Var. £. arctotoides (Harv.); rad. leaves long petioled, cuneate-obovate, entire or 
repand ; cauline variably incised or pinnatifid; heads asin a. (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
Has. Cape, Lichtenstein. Sneeuwberg ; Kendo; Pietermeintjesfont; near Graaf 
Reynet ; and Hex Rivierberg, Drege! 8. Wolve River, Burke and Zeyher. Zey. 992- 
(Herb. Sond., D.) 
Rootstock very thick, tuberous at base. Leaves many, rosulate from the crown, 
2-4 inches long, 3-1 in. wide, variably incised or sinuate, of thickish, opaque sub- 
stance. Pedunc. 2-5 inches long. Inv. $-? in. diam. Rays deep blue when dry. 
Dr. Sonder has compared Drege’s plant with the original sp. in Herb. Berol. described 
by Lessing. Var. 8. has petioles 2—3 inches long, and much shorter and more entire 
lower and radical leaves ; a 1-1} in. long stem, and polymorphous cauline leaves ; in 
its fl. heads it agrees with the common form. The rays dry blue; the disc.-fl. look 
as if they may have been red: quere, are both red when fresh? 
41. 0. sonchifolia (DDC.! 1. c. 482); stemless ; root tuberous, crown 
very thick, woolly ; radical leaves shortly petioled, glabrous, lyrato- 
pinnatifid, the lobes in several pair, with rounded interspaces, shortly 
oblong, lobulate and mucronato-denticulate, the uppermost confluent ; 
scapes rigid, striate, much longer than the leaves, one-headed ; inv. 
lobes and rays about 8; achenes silky; pappus pale tawny. 
Has. Stellenbosch, EZ. & Z.! (Herb. Sond.) 
_ Tuber globose or oblong ; crown { in. diam. Leaves 4-6 inches long, 1 in. wide ; 
lobes $-} in. long, 4-5 lines wide. Scapes 6-10 in. long. The rays, in Ecklon’s 
specimens here described, seem to my eye to have been yellow; but DC. calls them 
blueish ( ccerulescentes ). 
§ 6. Cautescmntes. (Sp. 42-58.) 
42. 0. cakilefolia (DC. 1. c. 482); herbaceous, erect, glabrous ; root 
tuberous, somewhat woolly on the crown, stem nude at base, leafy and 
flexuous in the middle, branched above ; leaves sessile, half-clasping, 
fleshy, pinnatipartite, the lobes in few pair, with rounded interspaces, 
broadly linear, obtuse, entire ; upper leaves on each side one-lobed ; _ 
branches pedunculoid, one-headed, subcorymbose ; iny. campanulate, 
