604 LXXI. COMPOSITE, [Othonna 
terminal, divaricately paniculate, exceeding the foliage, corymbose 
or sub-hemispherical, much branched, bracteate, pedunculate, 3 to 
6 in. in diameter; peduncle 13 to 5 in. long, naked, pallid, 
striate ; bracts mostly small and subulate, a few of the lower 
ones sub-foliaceous ; capitula hemispherical, } to } in. in diameter, 
ecalyculate, heterogamous, radiate, numerous ; ultimate pedicels 
2 to 14 in. long; involucral scales 5, oval-oblong, obtuse and 
ciliolate at the apex, scarious on the lateral margins, connate 
and somewhat thickened at the base } to } in. long; flowers 
yellow ; female florets about 4, radiate, fertile, with a very obtuse 
oblong 5-nerved ligule ;'; to } in, broad and short bifid style ; 
hermaphrodite florets about 26, barren, } to } in. long, discoid, 
with a tubular shortly 5-lobed corolla, anthers scarcely exserted, 
shortly appendaged at the apex obtuse and exappendiculate at 
the base, undivided included style, and puberulous compressed 
ovary, surmounted by a uniseriate whitish pappus consisting of 
about 50 uniseriate barbellate sete + to + in. long; achenes of 
the ray-florets } in. long, ;4; in. broad, not much ‘compressed, 
densely pilose, surmounted by a copious pluriseriate slightly 
stramineous barbellate setose pappus } in. long; receptacle small, 
glabrous, somewhat tubercular. 
Hu1iia.—In rocky mountainous places from Lopollo towards JAu ; 
fl. and fr. end of April 1860. No. 3569. In rather dry stony hilly 
places between Mumpulla and Lopollo ; fl. April and fr. end of May 
1860. No. 3570. 
Related to O. triplinervia DC.; it differs by a more divaricately 
branched inflorescence, etc. 
3. 0. arborescens L.Sp.PI., edit. 2, p.1310(1763); Harv.,Z.c.,p.338. 
MossaMEpDEs.—A fleshy, rigid shrub, 1 to 2 ft. high, with a yellow 
resin; ramification sometimes pseudo-verticillate, in other cases 
forked ; flowers apparently yellow. In dry hilly places about the 
Giraal, plentiful; past flowering, nearly all the flowers having fallen, 
July 1859. No. 3571. 
The condition of the specimens does not enable me positively to 
identify them, but they agree with this species, except in the shorter 
peduncles, which are about 2 in. long and equal or scarcely exceed the 
foliage, and in this respect they resemble 0. osteospermoides DC. ; 
from this latter, however, they differ by the involucral scales being 
only 5, instead of 8 ; possibly they belong to an undescribed species. 
4. 0. plantaginea Hiern, sp. n. 
A cespitose perennial herb, with the habit of a Plantago, 7 
to 9 in. high; rootstock thick, cottony, abrupt, with numerous 
enlarged subcylindrical fibres descending from its base ; stem and 
the numerous radical leaves densely clothed at their base with 
long whitish cottony hairs; leaves rather thick and rigid; the _ 
lower ones linear-spathulate, pointed at the apex, attenuate at 
the base and quasi-petiolate, erect or suberect, 1- to 3-nerved, 
thinly cottony or glabrate, 3 to 6 in. long by { to 4 in. broad, 
entire ; cauline leaves few, smaller, linear-lanceolate or subulate ; 
capitula broadly campanulate, inconspicuously radiate, solitary, 
