€04 Lxxi. COMPOSIT.E. [Othomia 



terminal, divaricately paniculate, exceeding the foliage, corymbose 

 or sub- hemispherical, much branched, bracteate, pedunculate, 3 to 

 € in. in diameter ; peduncle 1-i to 5 in. long, naked, pallid, 

 striate ; bracts mostly small and subulate, a few of the lower 

 ones sub-foliaceous ; capitula hemispherical, i to i in. in diameter, 

 ecalyculate, heterogamous, radiate, numerous ; ultimate pedicels 

 I to 1| 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 i in. long ; flowers 

 yellow ; female florets about 4, radiate, fertile, with a very obtuse 

 oblong 5-nerved ligule y\j- to ^ in, broad and short bifid style ; 

 hermaphrodite florets about 26, barren, i 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 setse |- to ^ in. long ; achenes of 

 the ray-florets i in. long, yV i^- broad, not much compressed, 

 densely pilose, surmounted by a copious pluriseriate slightly 

 stramineous barbellate setose pappus ^ in. long ; receptacle small, 

 glabrous, somewhat tubercular. 



HuiLLA. — In rocky mountainous places from Lopollo towards J4u ; 

 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 0. triplinervia DC. ; it differs by a more divaricately 

 branched inflorescence, etc. 



3. O.arboresceiisL.Sp.Pl.,edit.2,p.l310(17G3);Harv.,Z.c.,p.338. 

 MossAMEDES. — 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 

 Giraiil, 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. osteosjjermokles DC. ; 

 from this latter, however, they differ by the involucral scales being 

 only 6, instead of 8 ; possibly they belong to an undescribed species. 



4. 0. plantaginea Hiern, sp. n. 



A csespitose 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 i in. broad, 

 entire ; cauline leaves few, smaller, linear-lanceolate or subulate ; 

 capitula broadly campauulate, inconspicuously radiate, solitary, 



