Osteospermum. | COMPOSIT# (Harv.) 441 
Has. Ravine, under the Sneeuweberg, Dr. Wallich/ (Herb. D.) 
Root ligneous. Stems 2 feet or more long, spreading widely, rigid, harsh to the 
touch, much and intricately branched. Leaves 3—-} inch long, 1-2 lines wide, all 
remarkably recurvo-patent ; their teeth runcinate. Achenes 2-3 in each head. 
This seems a very distinct species. 
19. 0. muricatum (E. M. !); stems suffruticose, erect, much branched, 
glaucous, striate, glabrous or hispid below, glandular and viscidulous 
above ; leaves sessile, linear or linear-lanceolate, sharply and deeply 
toothed, glabrous or hispid-scabrous, acute; branches t-headed; invol. 
scales acuminate ; achenes obovoid, trigonous, acute at base, the inner 
angle keel-shaped, the two outer cross-furrowed and tubercled. 
Var. a. asperum; stem and leaves copiously hispid-scabrous. Zey./ 1005. 
Var. 8. glabratum; stem and leaves glabrous or nearly so. Zey./ 1004. 
Has. Camdebo, Drege! Cape, 7.4 Z./ Vaal R. and Rhinoster Kop, Burke ¢ 
Zeyher! Zululand, Miss Owen/ Mova R., Gerr. & M’K.1061. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems 6-12 inches high, very pale, as well as the foliage. Leaves 4-14 inch long, 
2-3 lines wide, narrowed to the base, 4-8-toothed on each side. Achenes 10-12 in 
each head, their tubercles and furrows more or less strongly marked. Pubescence 
very rigid, variable in amount, sometimes very copious. 
20, 0. asperum (Less.! Syn. 89); suffruticose at base, scabro-pubes- 
cent, subglandular and viscidulous; stem erect, leafy, corymbose at 
summit, terete; leaves sessile (but not ear-clasping at base), the lower- 
most linear-spathulate, obtuse, coarsely and bluntly few-toothed beyond 
the middle, the uppermost linear-subulate, acute, quite entire; branches 
nude at the apex, 1-headed; inv. se. lanceolate, acuminate, margined, 
dorsally scabrid; achenes? DC. 1. c. 468. Calendula aspera, Th.! 
Cap. 703. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg/ (Herb. Th.) 
Described from Thunberg’s specimen, from which the achenes have disappeared ; 
possibly they may afford an additional character between this sp. and O. subawritum, 
which it much resembles. Lower leaves 4-3 inch long, 1-14 line wide ; upper 4 
line wide. 
21. O subauritum (DC.! 1. c. 464); half-herbaceous, scabrous, glan- 
dular-pubescent and subviscid ; stem erect, leafy, corymbose at the 
summit, striate, subterete ; leaves sessile, linear-acuminate, sparingly 
toothed, scaberulous, the uppermost especially clasping, and somewhat 
eared at base; branches nude at the apex, 1-headed ; inv. scales ovate, 
acute, margined, dorsally scabrid ; rays twice as long as the involucre; 
achenes acute at base, bluntly 3-angled, thickly scaberulous above and 
on the dorsal facets. ; 
Pies Paarl and Drakenstein, Drege/ Brakfontein, Clanw., E.§ Z./ (Herb. 
oy Dy SAK. 
1-1} foot dich, scarcely lignescent. Leaves 1-14 inch long, 2-3 lines wide, 2-3- 
toothed at each side. Achenes seen on Ecklon’s specimens, Herb. Sond. This has 
closely the habit of O. asperum, but differs in foliage. 
22, 0. grandiflorum (DC. 1. c. 464); “shrubby, erect, glabrescent, 
sparingly corymbose at the apex ; leaves linear-lanceolate, at each end 
acuminate, on each side with 2-3 recurved teeth, the uppermost linear- 
subulate, entire; twigs 1-headed; invol. scales lanceolate, acuminate, 
