Osteospermum. | COMPOSIT# (Harv.) 433 
CXXIT. OLIGOCARPUS, Less. 
Heads few-flowered, moneecious ; ray-fl. uniseriate, ligulate, female; 
disc-fl. tubular, 5-toothed, male. nv. uniseriate. Recept. naked. Achenes 
of ray sessile, polymorphous, terete or trigonous, scabrous or nearly 
smooth, or transversely ridged and pitted, either wingless, minutely 
winged, or obviously 3-winged; either beaked or nearly, or quite beak- 
less, the beak sometimes solid, as long as the achene, hornlike; some- 
times short, knoblike ; sometimes inflated, hollow and euplike! DC. 
Prodr. 6, p. 455. 
A small, many-stemmed, hairy and glandular, strong-scented annual. Leaves 
alternate. Name from oAvyos, few, and kapmos, fruit. Asa genus it is scarcely 
distinct from Tripteris. ‘ 
0. calendulaceus (Less. Syn. p. 90); DC. 1. c. 455. Also O, tripter- 
~ oides, DC. 1. ce. Osteospermum calendulaceum, Linn. f. Suppl. 386. Calen- 
dula parviflora, Thunb. Cap. 703. 
Has, Cape, Thunberg! Stellenbosch, Uitenhage, Graaf Reynet and Caffirland, 
E.§ Z.! Zey.! 3070. Zuureberg, Drege! Bosjesveld, Mundt. Hassaquaskloof, Zey./ 
3069. (Hb. Th., D., Sd., Hk.) 
Root annual, simple, somewhat fibrous. Stems many from the crown, at first 
ascending, then diffuse, procumbent or trailing, much branched and widely spreading, 
pubescent and glandular, as well as the leaves ; young parts cobwebby. Leaves 
alternate, 1-2 inches long, 2-5 lines wide, tapering at base or subpetiolate, oblong 
or lanceolate, irregularly few-toothed, repand or subentire; the upper small, sessile, 
linear. Pedicels terminal and axillary, one-headed. Heads small, few-flowered. 
Inv. sc. lanceolate, acute, variably membr.-edged. Achenes of many forms, on the 
same plant or in the same head ; 1, very much pitted and ridged across, obconical, 
crowned with an inflated, hollow, cuplike beak ; 2, slightly wrinkled with a similar 
beak ; 3, very much cross-ridged and beakless or nearly so; 4, scabrous, but scarcely 
wrinkled, with an obsolete beak ; 5, scabrous or smooth, terete or 3-cornered, with 
a long, hornlike, solid beak; 6, three-cornered, the angles minutely winged ; 7, cross- 
ridged and furrowed, with 3 membranous wings, exactly as in Tripteris/ 
CXXII. OSTEOSPERMUM, Linn. 
Heads many-fl., radiate; ray-ft. ligulate, female; dise-f. tubular, 
5-toothed, male, with abortive ovule and style. Jnvol. in few rows, the 
scales free (not concrete), ecept. naked, or rarely setigerous. Achenes 
of the ray drupaceous or nutlike, thick, very hard, glabrous, beakless, 
without pappus. DC. Prodr. 6, p. 459. Also Xerothamnus, DC. l. c. 
vol. 5, p. 311. 
South African shrubs or half-shrubs, rarely sub-herbaceous. Leaves alternate 
(very rarely opposite), either entire, toothed or pinnatifid. Heads yellow. Achenes 
oblong or obovate, smooth or rugulose, bluntly or sharply 3-angled, or 3-winged ; 
sometimes longitudinally many-nerved. Name from oorcor, bone and oreppa, a seed. 
§ 1. Opposit1FoLIa. Stem herbaceous, erect; leaves opposite (the uppermost 
sometimes alternate). (Sp. 1.) 
Leaves sessile, cuneate at base, ovate, coarsely toothed, 
jnembrancus (4 i572 ..27 cs (0) herbaceum. 
§ 2. MonmiFera.* Shrubs or suffrutices, glabrous, cobwebby or hispid, but not 
glandular or viscidulous ; leaves alternate, mostly coriaceous, with a hard, thickened 
crenato-dentate or spinoso-dentate margin. Achenes smooth, more or less drupaceous. 
(Sp. 2-6.) 
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