Gymnodiscus. | COMPOSITA (Haryv.) 345 
Has. Near Capetown, Ecklon. (Perhaps some form of 0. parviflora.) 
- ©. quinqueradiata (DC. |. c. 478); “suffruticose, glabrous, erect; 
stem short, terete, fleshy, sparingly branched; leaves crowded at the 
end of the branches, woolly at the axils, oblong, tapering at base, 
obtuse, submucronate, flat, quite entire; pedunc. terminal, twice as 
long as the leaves, one-headed, nude; iny. scales and rays 5, rays 
7—o-nerved.” DC. 1. c. 479. o 
Has. Cape, Forbes. (How does this differ from 0. arborescens ?) 
Hertia crassifolia (Less. Syn. 88); DC, Prodi.6, p. 483. Othonna crassifolia, Linn. 
Mant. 118 (excl. syn. Comm.) Mill. Ic. t. 245, f. 2, is omitted in this work, because, 
as I am advised by Dr. Sonder, the specimen, in Herb. Berol., on which Lessing 
founded his genus, is merely a cultivated state of the European O. cheirifolia. There 
is nothing like it in any collection of Cape plants known to me. 
CXVI. GYMNODISCUS, Less. 
Heads several-flowered, radiate; ray-/l. shortly ligulate, female ; 
dise-fl. 5-fid, male. Inv. scales uniseriate, concrete at base, not calycled. 
Recept. nude. Achenes glabrous, smooth, ovate or obovate. Pappus 
uniseriate in the ray-fl.; none in the dise-fl. DC. Prodr. 6, p. 469. 
Small annuals, natives of S. Africa. a. Leaves chiefly radical, rosu- 
late, lyrate or linear. Heads small, corymboso-paniculate. Name from -yupvos, 
nude, and Sicxos, a disc; because the disc-fl. have no pappus. 
Radical-leaves lyrate or sinuato-pinnatifid ... ...  ... 3 capillaris. 
Radical-leaves narrow-linear, quite entire... ,... ... (2) linearifolia. 
1. G. capillaris (Less. Syn. 89); radical leaves obovate, lyrate or 
lyrato-pinnatifid; inv. 5-6-lobed; rays 5-6. DC.l.¢. 469. Othonna 
capillaris, Linn. f. Suppl. 388. Thunb.! Cap. 721. 
Var. 8. latifolia (Sond.); rad. lvs. sinuato-pinnatifid; cauline very broad, oblong 
or obovate, obtuse, repand or subsinuate. (Hb. Sd.) 
Has. Cape Flats and throughout the Western Districts, in 
Saldanha Bay, E.G Z./ (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) = 
Habit of Capsella Bursa Pastoris. Radical-leaves » rosulai 
petioled, the lat. lobes 2-3, rounded, terminal larger, bluntly ovate, entire or repand. 
Stem 6-12 in. high, forked or alternately divided, with small, sessile, toothed or 
incised leaves at the forks, diffusely panicled upwards ; dwarf specimens simple and 
few-headed. Anthers rounded at base. Disc-style cone-tipped. 8. is a very luxuriant 
state, with much larger and less cut or subentire stem-leaves. 
2. G. linearifolia (DC. lL c. 469); leaves linear-elongate, fleshy, ob- 
tusely callous-tipped, veinless, quite entire; inv. 7-9-lobed; rays 6-7. 
Has. Boschjemans-karroo and Groenrivier, Drege! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Habit of @. capillaris, but with very different foliage. 
(Doubtful Species.) 
G. orbicularifolius (Sch. B., Bot. Zeit. 27, 768); “leaves orbicular, 
entire, 5-9 lines diameter, petioled ; stem nude, corymboso-paniculate ; 
the heads larger and rays paler than in @. capillaris.” Sch. B. 1. c. 
Walp. Rep. 6, p. 274. 
Has. Cape. 
