Osmitopsis. | COMPOSITA (Harv.) 3805 
obtuse; rays female. DC. l.c. 291. also O. Bellidiastrum, DC. l.c. excel. 
SYN. OMN.« 
Has. Fransche Hoek, Ecklon! W.H.H, Drakensteinbergand Dutoitskloof, Drege! 
Bavian’sberg, Genadendahl, Dr. Pappe! Table Mt., Mundt./ Zey./ 2936. (Herb. 
Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems several from the crown, at first decumbent, then erect, 6-12 inches high, 
simple or branched near the summit. Leaves closely placed below, 6-8 lines long, 
2 lines wide, becoming gradually smaller and more lax upwards, diminishing to scales 
below the sub-peduncled head. Heads like those of the Ox-eye Daisy (Chrysanth. 
leucanthemum). Invol. woolly. Scales broad, with jagged margins. Rays thick, 
opaque-white. Drege’s specimens distributed under the name ‘ 0, Bellidiastrum” 
in no respect differ from the common hirsuta. I find the rays of this, in Fransche 
Hoek specimens (!), to be female, not ‘‘ neuter” as stated by Lessing. 
4. O. parvifolia (DC.l.c.291); shrubby, dwarf, branching; branches 
densely and equally leafy to the summit; leaves oblong or obovate ob- 
long, spreading or deflexed, glabrous, punctate, sharply toothed near 
the summit or throughout, teeth subulate-acuminate ; inv. scales oblong, 
glabrous, serrato-ciliate ; rays female. 
Has. Cape, Mundt/ Dr. Stanger! Hott. Holl. Mts., Drege’ (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
Stems woody, closely branched, 3-6 inches high, densely leafy. Leaves squarrose, 
3-4 lines long, 2 lines wide. Inner inv, scales scarious at tip. Rays broad, white. 
5. 0. pinnatifida (DC. ! 1. c. 291); stems subsimple, ascending, leafy 
below, shortly nude at summit, glabrous; leaves deeply pinnatifid, 
glabrous, the lobes on each side 3—5, subulate, quite entire, the lower 
shorter; inv. scales oblong, the inner membranous and torn at edge ; 
pappus of the ray of very minute scales, sub-coroniform ; of the dise 
with 2 long bristle-pointed scales, the rest very small or obsolete. 
Has. Drakensteinberg, Drege! (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
With the habit of O. dentata, but very different foliage and pappus. 
6. 0. angustifolia (DC. 1. c. 291); “leaves linear, quite entire or 3% 
sparingly inciso-lobate near the apex; pappus of the ray and disc all 
with scales elongating into nearly equal bristles.” DC. 
Has. Simonsberg, Stellenb., near the waterfall, Drege. 
Of this I have only seen a few leaves (in Hb. Sd.) : the leaf-lobes are subulate, 
1-2 at each side near the summit. 
CVI. OSMITOPSIS, Cass. 
Characters as in Osmites; except ; Ray-fl. neuter. Pappusnone. DC. 
Prodr, 6. p. 292. ft 
A closely leafy, strongly balsam-scented, erect shrub. Leaves lanceolate, scattered, 1, ¢\- = 
dotted, one-nerved, sessile, entire or nearly so, Heads terminal, rays white. Name \“’ “ _.. 
from Osmites and ois, resemblance; like an Osmites. lyr 
e 4 he 
1. 0. asteriscoides (Cass. Dict. 37, p. 5). Less. Syn. 386. DC.1. ~ . 
C. 292. Or 
Var. a, pubescens (DC.); leaves on both sides pubescent, quite entire. O. asterisc- 
cides, Less.! Osmites asteriscoides, Linn. Sp. 1285. Burm. Afr. t. 58, f. 1. 
Var. 8, subdentata (DC.) ; leaves pubescent, callous-denticulate near the summit. 
Osmites camphorina, Linn., non Th. 
Var. y, glabra (DC.) ; leaves glabrous, quite entire. O. camphorina, Less.! 387. 
Osmites camphorina, Thunb.! Cap. 700. 
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