Refugium Botanicum.] 
[March, 1871. 
TAB. 253. 
Natural Order Composite. 
Tribe Cynare^. 
Sub -tribe Calendule^e. 
Genus Othonna, Cass. 
0. CEASSIFOLTA {Havveij, Fl. Cap. iii. p. 336). Herbacea, glaberriraa, 
ramis csespitosis pendulis gracilibus dichotomiter furcatis, foliis 
carriosis cyliudricis acutis 1 — 2-uiicialibus basi augustatis pallide 
viridibus, ad apicem ramorum sterilium coiifertis, pedunculis 2 — 6- 
cepbalis, pedicellis eloiigatis gracilibus ascendentibus, involucri 
squamis 8 oblongo-ligulatis acutis sequalibus valvatis basi connatis, 
ligulis circiter 12 flavis, acheniis glabris pappo brevioribus. — 
O.Jilicaulis, Ecklon FL Cap. p. 295, non Jacq. 
A native of Cape Colony, sent lately to England in a living 
state by Mr. MacOwan. 
Steins densely caespitose, glabrous like the rest of the plant, 
pendulous, about a foot long, dichotomously branched. Leaves 
fleshy, crowded at the point of the barren shoots, alternate on 
the branches, subcylindrical, an inch to two inches long, acute, 
narrowed in the lower third, pale green more or less tinged with 
purple. Peduncles slender, terminal, two to six inches long, 
bearing two to six heads on slender pedicels an inch to three 
inches long. Involucre campanulate, formed of about eight fleshy 
valvate ligulate- oblong acute scales united in a cup at the base. 
Ray-floivers about a dozen, female ; the ligide a rather dull 
yellow. Tubidar floivers dense, hermaphrodite, about equalling 
the involucre. Achenes glabrous, crowned by a pappus of long 
white scabrous hairs. 
Tab. 253. — 1, head of flowers ; 2, flower of the ray ; 3, its stigmas : 
4, achenium and pappus ; 5, flower of the disk; 6, ray of the pappus: 
all magnified. — J. G. B. 
This is a small but interesting species of Otlwnna, with a 
very pendent habit, thriving when planted in a mixture of sandy 
loam and leaf-mould, and grown in a light warm air}" greenhouse. 
During the winter especially it should be kept near the light, and 
then requires but little water. I received this plant from my 
friend Mr. D. Hanbury, F.R.S.— TF. W. S, 
