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436 COMPOSITE (Harv.) [ Osteospermum. 
toothed, acute, membranaceous, hispidulous, penninerved and veiny; 
pedunc. nude, terminal, one-headed, gland-scabrid ; inv. sc. lanceolate, 
acuminate, glabrous; achenes obovate, acute at base, with a blunt dorsal 
ridge, smooth. Thunb.! Cap. p. 716. DC. 1. c. 468. O. Zeyheri, Spr.! 
in Zey. Pl. No. 214. DC. 1. ¢. 466. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Uitenhage, E. § Z.! Zey./ 3063., Drege! Buffalo R., Dr. 
Pappe! Natal, Gueinzius/ 341. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., 8d.) 
Tall, slender, with the habit of a Wedelia. Branches often opposite, erecto-patent. 
Leaves 2-4 inches long, 1-2 in. wide, thin, the younger slightly cobwebbed beneath. 
Heads small. 
§ 2. Montuirera. (Sp. 2-6.) 
2. 0. moniliferum (Linn. Sp. 1308); shrubby, mostly unarmed, 
much-branched, erect or diffuse ; leaves petioled, obovate or obovato- 
lanceolate, acute or obtuse, coarsely toothed or subentire, coriaceous, 
nerved, the young cobwebbed or cottony, the adult glabrous and glossy; 
pedune. corymbose or solitary, scaly, short; inv. glabrous or woolly, 
its outer scales narrow, inner varying from ovate to lanceolate; achenes 
obovate-globose, drupaceous, glabrous and smooth. 7h./ Cap.715. DC. 
Lc. 460. Dill. Eth. t. 68, f. 79. Lam. Ill. t. 714. 
Var. a. verum; lvs. obovate, mostly acute; inner inv. sc. lanceolate, oblongo- 
lanceolate or oblong, acute. O, moniliferum, DC.! 
Var. 8. rotundatum ; lvs. broadly obovate, very obtuse; inv, sc. lanceolate. 0. 
rotundatum, DC. 1. c. 461. 
Var. . pisiferum ; lvs. mostly glabrous, obovate or lanceolate; inner inv. 8¢- 
broadly ovate or oblong. 0. pisiferum, Linn., DC.l.c. O. piliferum, Th.! Cap. 715- 
Var. 3. lanosum (DC.) ; apices spinous ; young leaves woolly on both sides. 0. 
- spineseens, DC. le. 439, non. Th. Jacq. Schoenbr. t. 377 (good!) 
Var. e. angustifolium (DC.) ; diffuse or trailing, more or less cobwebbed ; leaves 
lanceolate, cuneate at base, toothed or entire. 
Has. Throughout the Colony, frequent near the sea. 8. Natal, Drege, Krauss 
Da ey . 383. J. Sanderson, 587. «. Uitenhage, 7.d Z./&c. (Herb. Th., 
., Hk., Sd. 
A large bush, 2-4 ft. high, much branched, very variable in the shape of its 
leaves and in the cobwebby or woolly hairs that more or less persistently clothe 
the young parts. Leaves 14-2} in. long, }-1} in. wide, rarely quite entire, the old 
ones almost always glossy. Pedune. 1-2 inches long, axillary and terminal, often 
several at the ends of the branches. Rays bright yellow. ‘The ashes contain much 
alkali, and are sometimes used in the manufacture of soap; the colonial name 18 
Bush-tick Berry, and the berries are eaten by birds and Hottentot children.” 7s. 
Barber, 479.—1 find the iny. scales so variable, in specimens from the same locality, 
that I cannot employ them to separate O. pisiferum from moniliferum of authors. 
A fragment from Drege (Hb. Sd.) marked ‘‘ 0. spinescens” is referable to our var. 
5. of which Jacq. Schoenbr. t. 377, quoted by DC., is an excellent figure. O. rotun- 
datum, DC. is only a var. with larger, broader and blunter leaves than usual. 
3. 0. coriaceum (DC.! 1. c. 461); suffruticose, erect, virgate, cobwebbed 
when young, at length glabrous and glossy; leaves petioled, coriaceous, 
obovate, obovato-lanceolate or lanceolate, tapering much to the base, 
more or less sharply toothed beyond the middle or subentire, the uppet- 
most small, narrow, acute, quite entire; pedunc. corymboso-paniculate, 
pedicels scaly and at first white-woolly ; outer inv. sc. subulate, woolly, 
becoming nude, inner broadly oblong or obovate, acute or cuspidate- 
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