Osteospermum. | COMPOSIT# ( Harv.) 445 
35. 0. corymbosum (Linn. Mant. 290); stem suffruticose, erect, sim- 
ple or branched, leafy, glabrous or woolly-tomentose; leaves sessile, 
coriaceous, glabrous, nerved, ovate, oblong, or obovate, acute or mucro- 
nate, entire, either smooth or scabro-ciliolate at edge; fl.-branches more 
or less corymbose, long or short, one-headed, gland-scabrid ; inv. sc. 
mostly dorsally glandular, rarely smooth; achenes oblong, sharply 3-an- 
gled or with 3 very narrow wings, the interspaces transversely ridged 
and furrowed. Zhunb.! Cap. 715. DOC./ 1. c. 461. 
Var. 8. rotundifolium (DC.); leaves crowded, broadly ovate, 14 in. long, 1 in. 
wide; stem smooth. O.corymbosum, Th./ Herb. O.dichotomum, E.Mey! DC.1.c. 462. 
Var. y. parvifolium ; lvs. crowded, ovate or oblong, 3} in. long, 4-5 1. wide; stem 
smooth. Zey.! 3059. 
Var. 5. lasiocaulon (DC.); leaves sparse, obovate or oblong; stem clothed with 
deciduous, white wool. Zey./ 3058, 7. Cooper! 1504. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg/ E.G Z.! Drege! B. Hott. Holl., Zey./ 3057. Bd y., Uiten- 
hage, £.g Z.! (Herb. Th., D., Hk. Sd.) 
Very variable in habit and in the size and form of the leaves. Var. y, which 
has achenes similar to the others, is in foliage very near O. imbricatum. 
36. 0. nervatum (DC.! 1. c. 462); rootstock ligneous, woolly at the 
crown; stem suffruticose, erect or ascending, decrescently leafy upwards, 
branched at the summit; lower and subradical leaves lineari-lingulate, 
narrowed toward the base, upper sessile, oblong-linear, all conspicuously 
mid-nerved and margined, glabrous, coriaceous, mucronate ; fl.-branches 
laxly panicled or sub-corymbose, gland-scabrid; inv. se. oblong, nearly 
smooth; achenes sharply 3-angled, between the angles ridged and fur- 
rowed. 
Has. Albany, Omtata and Omsamwubo, Drege! Cape, Ecklon! Brit. Caffraria, 
T. Cooper, 175. Umazinto, Natal, M. J. M‘Ken.! Gerr. & M‘K.! 322. (Herb. D., 
Hk., Sd.) 
Lowest leaves 5-6 in. long, 3-4 1. wide; upper 14-2 in. long; uppermost }-1 in. ; 
all somewhat glaucous, with a very pale or whitish nerve and smooth margin. 
37. O. lanceolatum (DC. 1. c. 463); “ suffruticose, erect, corymbose 
at the apex, the young parts clothed with lax, cobwebby hairs, the 
older nude; leaves lanceolate, tapering at base, sessile, subacute, quite 
entire, one-nerved; branches terete, one-headed, nearly nude at the 
apex; inv. sc. linear lanceolate, acuminate, immarginate, equalling the 
disc. DC.4c. 
Has. Natal, Drege. (Unknown to me.) 
38. 0.? microphyllum (DC.! 1. c. 463); very dwarf, robust, shrubby, 
ramulous, glabrous, the old twigs subspinescent, axils somewhat woolly; 
leaves rigid, lance-linear, acuminate, mucronate, flat, 1-nerved, quite 
entire (or ciliolate), thick-edged; ped. scarcely longer than the leaves, 
glabrous; inv. se. oblong, membr.-edged, subobtuse; achenes unknown. 
Has. On the Karroo, Ecklon / Zwartbulletje, Drege. (Herb. Sond., D.) 
Stem thick and woody, with rough bark, 3-4 inches high, irregularly divited 
and twiggy. Leaves oes lines long, 3-3 1. wide, pale. Mature fl. heads not seen. 
Doubtful and imperfectly known species. 
0.? thymeleoides (DC.1.c. 462); “shrubby, erect, branched; branches 
