412 COMPOSIT (Harv.) [Euryops. 
Has. Piquetberg, Thunberg! Winterhoek, Tulbagh, Pappe! Swellendam, Drege. 
(Herb. Th., D. ) 
A strong growing bush, 2-3 feet high, with long branches, leafy to the summit. 
Leaves 2-24 inches long, the undivided portion 14 inch, the lobes 4—$ inch long, 
4 line wide. Pedunc. 2-23 inches long, rigid, very slender, pale. Achenes densely 
villous! (not ‘glabrous,’ as stated by DC. 1. c.) F 
10. E. trifidus (Less. ! Syn. 394); glabrous, much branched, flexuous ; 
leaves short, fleshy, thick, linear, trifid to below the middle or entire, 
imbricated, obtuse or mucronulate ; pedunc. axillary, 2-3 times as long 
as the leaves; inv. scales 8—g oblong, membr. edged; rays oblong ; 
achenes very villous. DC. l. c. 444. Othonna trifida, Th.! Cap. 721. 
(Herb, Th., litt. a.) 
Has. Piquetberg, Thunberg! Karroo and near the Gariep, Drege! (Herb. Th.,Sd.) 
Allied to #. multifidus, but with much thicker, shorter and more deeply cut, 
close-lying leaves and somewhat larger fl. heads. Leaves 4 inch long, the undivided 
portion 2 lines long; lobes nearly 1 line diameter. Achenes exactly like those of 
E. multifidus. 
11. E. multifidus (DC. ! 1. c.444); glabrous, much branched, flexuous ; 
leaves linear-filiform to beyond their middle, at the apex 3—5 or many- 
fid, the lobes linear, simple or bifid; pedunc. axillary, numerous, about 
twice as long as the leaves ; inv. scales 6-7, broadly ovate, membrane- 
edged; rays 5-7; achenes very villous. Othonna multifida, Linn. f. 
Th.! Cap. 722. 
Has. Carroo, Drege! Mundt./ Herrelogement, Zey.! 959. Namaqualand, A. Wyley! 
pega in Basuta Land, and in Albert, 7. Cooper! 736, 567. (Herb. Th., 
., Hk., Sd.) 
A strong, shrubby, ramulous bush, a foot or more in height. Leaves 4-13 inches 
long, their lobes 2-6 lines long, sometimes pedatifid. Pedunc. slender, 1-14 inches 
long. Heads small. Inv. scales broad, and less concrete than in most. Achenes 
clothed with copious, very long hairs. 
12. E. calvescens (DC. 1.c. 445); glabrous; the upper axils bearded; 
leaves crowded, imbricate, trifid, lobes linear, acute, longer than the 
undivided part; heads terminal, on very short pedicels; inv. scales about 
9, concrete beyond the middle; rays 7-9, twice as long as the involu- 
cre; achenes quite glabrous; pappus (fide DC.) “ of few bristles, the 
outer reflexed.” . 
Has. Stormberg, Drege/ (Herb. Sond.) ’ 
So closely resembling some varieties of Gamolepis brachypoda, that, without examl- 
ning the pappus, which I have been unable to do, it may readily be mistaken for that 
plant. The leaf-lobes, however, are longer in proportion ; the inv. sc. more concrete 
and much less taper-pointed ; and the achenes (judging by the ovaries) probably 
different. I rely on DC. for the characters of pappus, as above given. 
13. E. diversifolius (Harv.); glabrous; stem slender, forked ; leaves 
filiform, some simple, some 3-fid to the middle, some pinnately 4—- 5-fid 
with alternate lobes (not impress-dotted) ; pedune, terminal and lateral, 
6-8 times longer than the leaves; inv. scales 12-13, linear lanceolate, 
3-ribbed, connate at the base only; rays 12-15, twice as long as the 
head ; achenes glabrous, rib striate. 
‘Var, 8. integrifolius; leaves mostly entire. £. longipes B. lasiocladus, DC.! 1. ¢. 
