Othonna| LXXI. COMPOSITA, 605 
terminating the scapelike stem, 2 to = in. long, quasi-calyculate 
with a few subulate bracteoles, aeat + in. long, woolly at the 
base; involucral scales about 20, uniseriate, lanceolate-linear, 
thinly woolly or puberulous on the acess scarious on the margins, 
3 in, long or rather more, each arising from the exterior circum- 
ference of the receptacle just above thickened points or adpressed 
squamule ; flowers numerous, yellow; the outermost ones female, 
fertile, shortly ligulate, with exappendiculate recurving style- 
branches; the inner ones numerous, discoid, apparently barren, 
hermaphrodite ; the corollas tubular, $ to 3 in. long, gradually 
widening in the upper half, shortly 5-lobed, the tube scattered 
with some short hairs; the lobes lanceolate, obtuse, thickened 
and dark at the tip; the anthers included or nearly so, 4; in. 
long, scarcely appendaged at the apex, subobtuse and exappendicu- 
late at the base but the upper halves of the filaments thickened ; 
style included, not branched, only notched at the apex; young 
achenes rather slender, } in. long or nearly so, 10-ribbed or -striate, 
setulose, with a narrow whitish cartilaginous ring round the apex 
from which arises the copious white setose pappus; the sete } in. 
long, subuniseriate, slender, minutely barbellate. 
HviLia.—In sandy pastures above Mumpulla, among low bushes, 
rather rare; 4000 ft. elevation; fi. and young fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3684. 
Nearly related to O. scapigera Harv. ; it has much more numercus 
involucral scales. 
5. 0. gracilis Hiern, sp. n. 
A slender, erect or ascending, glabrous or subglabrous, glau- 
cescent herb; root annual or thickened and possibly perennial ; 
stem slender, 9 to 18 in. high, leafy at the base; branches alter- 
nate, ascending, somewhat leafy ; leaves alternate, rather fleshy, 
narrowly linear-subulate, sessile, ranging up to 3 in. long; entire 
and revolute on the margin; capitula campanulate-cylindrical, 
dilated at the apex during the flowering, discoid, about 25-flowered, 
% in. long, numerous, ecalyculate, on slender, naked or slightly 
bracteate pedicels ranging up to 5 in. long, arranged in a rather 
lax terminal corymbose cyme of 2 to 8 in. in diameter; bracts 
small, subulate; involucral scales 8, uniseriate, linear-oblong, 
pointed at the apex, scarious on the lateral margins, 4 to + in. 
long, erect, cohering at the base for a short distance, at length 
after the fall of the fruit separating and spreading ; flowers 
yellowish, perhaps all hermaphrodite ; about + in. long, corolla 
tubular, exceeding the involucre, shortly 5- lobed, the outer ones 
somewhat spreading ; anthers shortly exserted, narrowed, obtuse 
and not appendaged at the base ; style undivided or style-branches 
very short, truncate and stigmatose at the apex, not appendaged, 
equalling the corolla; achenes ;4; in. long, glabrous, subterete, 
smooth ; sete of the pappus very slender, white, rather copious, 
subuniseriate, about in. long, minutely barbellate ; receptacle 
narrow. 
HviLia.—In moist sandy pastures near Nene, after the first rains ; 
fl. Oct. 1859. No. 3671. Fl. and fr. Dec, 1859 and Jan. 1860. No. 3672. 
