198 LXX. COMPOSITE. 
Chiefly an American and Asiatic genus. C.? cissampelina, DC., the 
only Cape species, is a climbing halfshrub, cobwebby, becoming glabrate ; 
' leaves petioled, bluntly 3-5-angled, 5-7-nerved, netted-veined, with mu- 
cronate angles ; peduncles axillary, short, corymbose; heads 9-10-flowered. 
—Found on the Katberg. 
113. KLEINIA, Linn. 
Heads many-flowered, discoid, almost homogamous (in 1-2 
species heterogamous) ; all the flowers tubular, 5-toothed. 
Involucre 1-seriate, many-leaved, with a few small bracte- 
oles at base, rarely nude. Receptacle nude, flat. Style-arms 
tipped with a short cone, ciliate at base. Achenes beakless. 
Pappus bristle-shaped, roughish, in many rows.—ZJ7. Cap. iii. 
Pp: 315. 
Fleshy herbs or shrubs, sometimes nearly stemless, often glaucous. 
Leaves aliernate, mostly quite entire, often very thick and juicy. Flowers 
white or pale yellow.—18 Cape species, dispersed. 
114. DORIA, Less. 
Characters as in Othonna, except: Heads discoid. Corolla 
of the marginal female flowers tubular, truncate, shorter than 
the involucre, never ligulate-— FV. Cap. ul. p. 320. 
Herbs or shrubs, with completely the aspect of Othonna.—27 species, 
dispersed. 
115. OTHONNA, Linn. 
Heads radiate; ray-flowers ligulate, female ; disk-flowers 
male, tubular, 5-toothed. Involucral scales 1-seriate, never 
calycled, more or less concrete before opening, and strictly 
valvate. Receptacle convex or subconical, honeycombed, some- 
times pilose. Style of male flowers simple, tipped with a 
hispid cone. Anthers rounded at base! Achenes of the ray- 
flowers oval, hairy or glabrous, with very copious, bristle- 
shaped pappus in many rows; of the disk-flowers abortive, 
slender, glabrescent, with 1- seriate pappus.—F7. Cap. iii. p. 
327 ; Thes. Cap. t. 15. 
Small shrubs or herbs, mostly glabrous, often glaucous. Roots in the 
herbaceous species often tuberous. Leaves entire or variously cut, lobed 
or toothed; either membranous coriaceous or fleshy. Heads solitary or 
corymbose.—58 Cape species, dispersed. 
116. GYMNODISCUS, Less. 
Heads several-flowered, radiate; ray-flowers shortly ligu- 
late, female; disk-flowers 5-fid, male. Involucral scales 1- 
seriate, connate at base, not calycled. Receptacle nude. 
Achenes glabrous, ovate or obovate. Pappus 1-seriate in the 
ray ; O in the disk-flower.— FV. Cap. iii. p. 345. 
