440 COMPOSITZ (Harv.) [Osteospermum. 
iny. se. biseriate, lanceolate, acuminate, membr.-edged, longer than dise, 
dorsally scabrous , rays 8—g ; young achenes 3-angled. 
Var. 8. hispidum; all parts rather coarsely hispid. O. Natalense, Sch. B. in Pl. 
Krauss! 391. 
Has. Katberg, Drege! Ceded Territory, Ecklon! Howison’s Poort, H. Hutton! 
Grahamstown, Genl. Bolton! P. McOwan. 277. 8. Natal, Krauss, 391. y. Nonoti 
R., W. T. Gerrard? (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems 2-3 ft. long or more, supporting themselves among bushes. Leaves 2-2} 
in. long, 1-} in. wide, the teeth very shallow, distant, with rounded interspaces. 
Pedunc. 2-3 in. long. Rays bright yellow above, coppery-red beneath. Ripe 
achenes not seen ; when half grown they are sharply 3-angled and smoothish. 
15. 0.% sonchifolium (DC.! L c. 465); herbaceous or suffruticose, 
branching, leafy, all parts glandular-pubescent, viscidulous ; leaves ses- 
sile, ear clasping at base, membranous, netted-veined, inciso-pinnatifid ; 
the lobes short, sharply few-toothed, all the teeth taper-pointed ; inv. 
se. biseriate, lanceolate-acuminate, longer than the dise, the outer scales 
longest and broadest ; rays 15-20; achenes ? 
Var. f. subpetiolatum; leaves cuneate or tapering at base into an imperfect, 
amplexicaul petiole, either coarsely and sharply toothed, or inciso-pinnatifid as above. 
Has. Betw. Omtata and Omsamwubo, Drege! f. Kreili’s Country, H. Bowker, 
337. Keiskamma Hoek, 7. Cooper! 227. (Herb. D., Hk.) 
At length much-branched and somewhat lignescent, the branches well covered 
with broad leaves. Leaves always stem-clasping, but variable in form and degree 
of incision ; in a. oblong, deeply cut, in 8. more or less, sometimes very much, 
attenuated at base. Flowers according to Mr. Cooper ‘“ purple-blueish.” 
16. 0. calendulaceum (Harv. non L. f.); herbaceous or suffruticose, 
branching, all parts glandular-pubescent, viscidulous ; leaves sessile, 
cuneate at base, oblong, coarsely and sharply toothed or inciso-pinnati- 
fid, the teeth taperpointed ; pedunc. terminal and axillary, one-headed; 
inv. scales imbricated in 3-4 rows, lance-oblong, acute, equalling the 
disc, the outer scales shortest and narrowest ; rays numerous; achenes 
rather sharply 3-angled, minutely wrinkled across. 
Has. Natal, Gueinzius/ (Herb. Sond.) 
Very like O. sonchifolium in general aspect, but with a very different involucre. 
17. 0. picridioides (DC. 1. c. 465); “suffruticose, erect, sparingly 
branched, glabrescent ; leaves much attenuated into a cuneate petiole, 
somewhat ovate in the limb, coarsely toothed, the teeth callous and 
acutely mucronate; pedunc. 6-8 inches long, nude, 1-headed; invol. se- 
elliptical, scarcely shorter than the disc, white-membraned at the edge; 
rays twice as long as the inv.; achenes unknown.” DC. l. ¢. 
Has. Karroo, Drege. (Said to resemble 0. grandidentatum.) 
18. 0. squarrosum (Harv.); suffruticose, scabro-pubescent, glandular, 
viscidulous ; stem diffusely much branched and ramulous, subdichoto- 
‘mous; leaves stem-clasping, broad-based, squarrose or recurved, linear- 
acuminate, on each side 3—6-toothed, the teeth deltoid, recwraed, taper- 
pointed, very scabrid ; heads ending short twigs, few-fl.; invol. scales 
ovate, acute, margined, dorsally scabrid ; rays about 6; achenes oblong, 
bluntly 3-sided, deeply pitted and ridged longitudinally on the facets. 
