Osteospermum. | COMPOSITE (Harv.) 439 
A strongly and disagreeably scented, thorny bush, much and intricately branched. 
Leaves }-14 in. long, 1-2 1. wide, very variable ; the teeth or lobes, when present, 
spreading, mucronate. Pedunc. $-1} in. long. Fully ripe achenes with convex, 
unwrinkled sides. 
11, 0. trigonospermum (DC.! 1. c. 460); suffruticose, erect, all parts 
viscoso-pubescent ; the upper branches and twigs occasionally spinous; 
leaves from broadish, half-clasping, toothed bases, subulate, sharply 
inciso-pinnatifid, one-nerved, the lobes 2-3 on each side, acuminate; 
inv. sc. dorsally glandular, oval, acuminate, membr. edged; rays 9-10; 
achenes glabrous, smooth, 3-angled, 
Has, Olifant’s R. and Zeederberg, Drege! Clanw., E.& Z.! (Hb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Less robust and rigid than 0. spinosum, with broad-based, more sharply incised 
leaves, and a more rigid, less close pubescence; broader inv. scales and more angular 
fruit. 
12. 0. pterospermum (E. Mey!); shrubby, divaricately much-branch- 
ed, spiniferous, more or less viscoso-pubescent and scabrous ; leayes 
narrow, either subentire, sharply toothed, or inciso-pinnatifid, the lobes 
on each side 2-6, long or short, or obsolete, acute ; inv. se. dorsally 
gland-scabrid, lanceolate, acute ; achenes dimorphous, some smoothish 
and broadly 3-winged, some (in the same head !) wingless, muricated. 
DC. l. c. 460. 
Var. 8. spinosissimum; much more spiny than usual; leaves mostly minute, 
subulate entire. O. pterospermum, litt. c., Drege! (Hb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
Has. Stellenbosch and the Paarl, Drege! Worcester and Tulbagh, Ecklon! B. 
Simonsbay, Stell., Drege! Hex River, Burke! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Very like 0. spinosum, but with different achenes. I find two kinds of achenes 
(as above described) on Ecklon’s specimens (Hb. Sd.) Our var. 8. in its extreme state 
looks different, being nearly leafless and very thorny, with very short and small iny. 
scales; but Zeyher’s 1010, also from Hex Riv., is intermediate with the common form. 
13. 0. ilicifolium (Linn, Sp. 1308); shrubby, robust, unarmed, 
much-branched, in all parts scabrous, glandular and viscidulous; leaves 
half-clasping, crowded, spreading, broadly ovate or oblong, acute, mid- 
ribbed, faintly 3-nerved at base, sinuous-dentate, with recurved margins ; 
pedicels lateral and terminal, short, very scabrid ; inv. se. lanceolate, 
acuminate, longer than the dise ; achenes subreniform, concave, with 
a large areole on the inner face, dorsally rounded, longitudinally many- 
ridged, the lateral ridges cross-wrinkled. TZh./ Cap. 716. DC. 1. ¢. 
465. Burm. Afr. t. 62. 
Var. f. effusum; stems trailing, slender, widely spreading. (Herb. Sd.) 
Has. Common about Table Mountain. §. Zwarteberg, Z. & Z./ Zey.! 3062. 
(Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
2-3 ft. high, bushy, very rough to the touch, clammy and strong-scented. Leaves 
1-1} in. long, 4-3 in. wide. 
14, 0. grandidentatum (DC.! 1. c. 465); herbaceous or suffruticose, 
diffusely branched, leafy, thinly gland-pubescent, subviscidulous ; leaves 
sessile, cuneate and half-clasping at base, oblong, obtuse, sinuate-toothed, 
the teeth callous, with rounded interspaces, margins minutely reflexed ; 
pedicels terminal and axillary, exceeding the leaves, slender, one-headed ; 
