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OTHONNA cheirifolia. 
Stock-leaved Barhary Ragwort. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
Nat. ord. CorymBirerm. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. I. Receptaculura 
nudum. Sem. papposum. Flores radiati. 
OLTHONNA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 108. 
Div. Foliis divisis dentatis integerrimisve. 
O. cheirifolia, foliis lanceolatis trinerviis integerrimis, caule suffruticoso 
repente. Linn. sp. pl. 2. 1310. 
Othonna cheirifolia. Gouan hort. 464. Duham. arb. 2. 94. t. 17. Hort. 
Kew. 3. 277. ed. 2. 5.176. Willd. sp. pl. 3.2376. Desfont. atl. 2. 306. 
Othonna foliis cuneiformibus integerrimis sessilibus, caule fruticoso pro- 
cumbente, pedunculis longissimis. Mill. dict. ed. 7. n. 6. 
Othonna foliis cuneiformibus integerrimis sessilibus. Mill. ic. 2. 163. tab. 
2.45. fig. 1. 
Suffrutex sempervirens glaucus, subbipedalis, caules cheiranthoidi-lignes- 
centes, radicantes, ccespitoso-procumbentes, pallidé fuscescentes, ramis herba- 
ceis, crassis, assurgentibus, axillis foliorum proliferis. Fol. alterna, disticha, 
semiamplexicaulia, intervallis brevibus distincta, erecta, carnosula, trinervia, 
spathulata v. cuneata, elongato-oblonga, 3-uncialia v. ultra, ad maximum 
atitudine % partium uncie, fine rotundata cum parvo acumine, margine in aciem 
cartilagineam tenuem albidam attenuata: floralia summa lineari-oblonga, quorum 
unum v. et allerum nunc brevissimum atque subovatum. Pedunculi uniflori, 
terminales, solitarit, longiores folits, erect, crassiusculi, teretes, glauci, prope 
calycem incrassati. Cal. campanulatus, sub-8-fidus, glaber, glaucus, sub- 
semuncialis, segmentis acuminatis apice, villoso-ciliatis, membranoso-marginatis. 
Cor. aurea, diametro unciam eacedente, radiata; flosc. radii feeminei, fertiles, 
(12-13?) § longiores calyce, lamina latins ligulata, obovato-oblonga, 5-nervi, 
lateribus involutis, dorso biplicatd, 3-denticulata, glabra, tubo gracili glabro 
JSiliformi pallidé virente; stig. flavo bifido, longiis exserto, lobis lineari-oblongis, 
patulis, lateribus in longum reflexis; germ. albo, duplo breviore pappo, tereti- 
turbinato, glabro; pappo albo plumoso numeroso, equante tubum: flosc. radii 
hermaphroditi steriles, elongato-infundibuliformes, glabri lutet, limbo erecto 
acuminato cum fuuce simul aquante tubum filiformem: anths flavis parim 
‘exsertis, acutis: stig. clavato, subexserto, erecto, viridiusculo, pubescentes 
germ® filiformé, longitudine tubi neque crassiore; pappo pauco, raro. Recept. 
nudum, conicum. . ; 
Of the thirty-five species which have been recorded of 
this genus, the present is the only one that is not indigenous 
of the Cape of Good Hope; though by an oversight it is 
stated to be so in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis. 
It was found by Dr. Shaw near Tunis, and cultivated by 
Miller at Chelsea, in 1752. Professor Desfontaines has 
recently observed it in the same place where it was seen by 
