Osteospermum. | COMPOSITE (Harv.) 437 
acuminate ; achenes oblong, somewhat indented at base, bluntly 3- 
ridged at the apex, more or less furrowed between the ridges. 0. jun- 
ceum, Herb. Th. ! fol. 2,3. O.paniculatum, Less. MSS. in Hb. Th. 
Var. 8B, latifolium; lvs. broadly obovate or obovate-lanceolate ; achenes 4-5 lines 
long. O. macrocarpum, DC. 1. c. 461. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg. Swellendam, Eckl.! Sneeuweberg, Drege! Zwarteberg and 
near the Waterfall, Tulb., Pappe! R. Zondereinde, Zey. / 3053. Albany, Mrs. F.W. 
Se 392. 8, Uitenhage, #ckl.! Van Staaden’s Mts., Zey./ 3052. (Herb. Th., 
D., Hk., Sd. 
Stems 3-4 feet high, subsimple, ending in a panicled inflorescence. Leaves 4-5 
inches long, 1-2, or in 8, 2} inches wide, soon glabrous, very thick and rigid, with 
immersed veins. Invol. at first snow-white, becoming gradually nude. There are 
good specimens of this in Herb. Thunb.; he confounded it with his O. junceum. O. 
macrocarpum, DC., is a var. with broader Ivs. and somewhat larger fruit than usual. 
4, O. ciliatum (Berg. Cap. 332); shrubby, unarmed, diffusely much 
branched, often trailing, the young parts cobwebbed, older glabrous; 
branches angular, the angle scabrous or smooth ; leaves sessile, half- 
clasping, commonly cuneate at base, lanceolate or oblongo-lanceolate, 
coriaceous, with a cartilaginous, crenato-dentate margin, rigidly ciliate ; 
heads small, ending the subpanicled twigs ; inv. sc. lanceolate, acumi- 
nate; achenes cylindrical, nearly smooth. Th./ Cap.715. DC.1. c. 465. 
O. triquetrum, DC.? 1. c. (non Lann. f.) * 
Var. 8, oblongifolia; leaves oblong, broad and subcordate at base. Sieb. Fl. 251. 
(Herb. D.) 
Has. Common on road-sides and waste ground near Capetown, C. Wright, 339. 
Genadendahl, Dr. Pappe! (Herb. Th., D., Sd. Hk.) 
Stems 3-4 feet long, paniculately much branched. Leaves 1-14 inch long, 4 lines 
to } inch wide, opaque. 8. is scarcely distinguishable from var. 8. of O. laxum, 
but has glossy, and thicker leaves. 
5. 0. pungens (Harv.); suffruticose, diffuse or decumbent, unarmed, 
the young parts cobwebbed, older glabrous; branches angular; leaves 
linear-lanceolate and linear-subulate, pungent-mucronate, coriaceous, 
spinous-toothed (and sometimes ciliolate), nerve-keeled beneath, the 
margins recurved or revolute ; pedicels short, scaly, 1-headed ; inv. sc. 
ovato-lanceolate, much acuminate; achenes? O. triguetrum, DC.? 1. c. 
465 (non Linn.) 
Has. Caledon, Dr. Pappe! (Herb. D.) 
Rootstock and lower part of stems distinctly ligneous. Leaves about 1 inch long, 
4-1 line wide, more frequently subulate than lin.-lanceolate, close-set, at length 
glossy and dark-green. Notwithstanding its distinct-looking foliage, this may be 
merely an extreme form of 0. ciliatum. Dr. Pappe’s specimens, here described, are 
evidently young, but just coming into flower. I venture to refer DC.’s O. triquetrum, 
founded on Ecklon’s specimens from the Devil’s Mt., to this place ; judging by de- 
scription. 
6, 0. laxum (DC.! |: c. 465); suffruticose, unarmed, diffusely much- 
branched, the young parts cobwebbed, older glabrous; branches angular, 
sparsely hispid, the panicled twigs mostly glabrous; leaves sessile, half- 
clasping, obovate-oblong, acute, sub-membranaceous witha cartilaginous, 
crenato-dentate margin, ciliate; heads small, ending the twigs; inv. sc. 
lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous; achenes cylindrical, obtuse, smooth, 
furrowed at base. 
