Othonna.] COMPOSITE (Hary.) 343 
51. 0. macrophylla (DC.! 1. c. 480); herbaceous, glabrous ; root 
tuberous, woolly on the crown; stem short, flexuous, simple or forked, 
leafy; radical leaves? ; cauline leaves (very large ) sessile, stem-clasping, 
soft (drying thin and veiny), ovate-oblong or oblong, the uppermost 
acuminate, subsinuate, entire or remotely callous-denticulate ; pedune. 
long, nude or nearly so, 3-4 times forked or loosely panicled, pedicels 
very long; iny. sc. 12-13, lanceolate, acute, connate; achenes velyetty. 
Has. Little Namaqualand, Drege! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Root leaves unknown; cauline 4-9 or to inches long, 2-5 in. wide, conspicuously 
midribbed and netted with slender veins when dry; probably somewhat fleshy. 
Stem and pedune. together 2 ft. high, fistular, striate, pale; pedicels 3-6 inches 
long. Heads 8—12 in the inflorescence, 
52. 0. petiolaris (DC.! 1. c. 480); herbaceous, glabrous; root tuber- 
ous, woolly at the crown; stem short, subsimple, few-leaved; radical 
leaves petioled, broadly oblong or ovate-oblong, sinuate or crenato-lobu- 
late, or erose, or sublacerate, callous-denticulate, drying thin and veiny ; 
cauline 2—3, tapering much at base or subpetiolate, obovate, crenate or 
lobulate; pedune. long, nude, loosely panicled at summit, few-headed, 
the pedicels long; iny. sc. about 8, ovate-oblong, subacute; rays 8; 
achenes ? 
Has. Little Namaqualand, Drege! Betw. Olifant’s R. and Knakisberg, Zey./ 
root. (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
Radical leaves 4—6 inches long, on uncial or 2-uncial petioles, 2-3 in. wide; cauline 
2-3 in. long, 14-2 in. wide. Allied to O. macrophylla, but differing in the fewer inv. 
scales and the non-clasping cauline leaves. 
53. 0. cuneata (DC. 1. c. 481); herbaceous, glabrous; root tuberous, 
woolly at the crown; stem erect, short, simple or branched, leafy; radi- 
cal and lower cauline leaves petioled, broadly cuneate or subrotund, 
entire at base, dilated and coarsely several-toothed or lobulate at apex, 
thickish, faintly nerved and veined; upper leaves sessile or subsessile, 
toothed or entire; pedune. long, nearly nude, once or twice forked, few- 
headed ; pedicels very long; inv. sc. 7-8; achenes velvetty, with mi- 
nute, reddish hairs. 
Has. Langvalei and Knakerberg ; and near Holrivier, Drege / Betw. Olifant R. 
and Knakerberg, Zey./ 1000. (Herb. Hk., D., Sd.) 
Petioles 2-4 inches long; lamina of lower leaves 13-2 in. long, 2-2} wide. Ped. 
6-ro in. long, bearing 2-3 small leaves, 
54. 0. reticulata (DC. 1. c. 481); herbaceous, quite glabrous, woolly — 
at the crown; root tuberous? radical and lowest cauline leaves petioled, — 
more or less deeply sinuato-pinnatifid, prominently netted-veined, the 
lobes ovate or oblong, entire, mucronulate; upper leaves sessile, stem- 
clasping, oblong or lanceolate, some pinnatifid, others toothed or entire; 
stem very laxly leafy, branched, its branches ending in very long, nude, 
one-headed pedicels; inv. lobes and rays about 8; achenes (fide DC.) 
“« glabrescent.” 
Has. Near Olifant R., and Brackfontein, Z. §. Z.! (Herb. Sd., D.) 
1-2 feet high, the stem less pedunculoid than in others of this group ; its pedun- 
culoid branches 8-12 inches long. Leaves rather rigid, drying thin, 4-6 inches 
long, 1-2 inches wide. 
