BOTANY. 
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Island, growing amongst the Scrubwood bushes, and also on the cliffs 
at Wild Ram’s Spring, about 1800 feet perpendicularly above the sea. 
Dr. Hooker has only recently placed it under this genus, and 
says that it has hitherto been considered an Osteospermum, to which 
genus it is very near ; and it has also been referred to Oligocarpus, 
another closely allied genus, by Mr. Bentham, in Gen. Plant. — 
Plate 45. 
Osteospermum, Linn. 
395. O. moniliferum, Linn. ; 0. pisiferum, Roxb. — A yellow- 
flowered shrub ; grows wild, and is common over the somewhat 
barren land at Two-gun-saddle, &c. The seeds, when ripe, are 
eaten by children. M. Alt. 3. — Hab. Cape of Good Plope. 
Tribe Arctotide;e. 
Cryptostemma, R. Br. 
396. C. calendulaceum, R. Br. — Wild Hawkweed; grows as 
a weed, and is wild and common about the high land. Bot. Mag. 
2252. — Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 
Tribe Cynarotde^:. 
Xerantliemum, Linn. 
397. X. canescens, Linn. — White and pink Star Everlasting; 
grown in gardens ; very rare. Bot. Mag. 420. — Hab. S. Africa. 
Centaurea, Linn. 
39S. C. moschata, Linn. — Sweet Sultan, mentioned by Rox- 
burgh as growing in the Island. — Hab. Persia. 
Cynara, Linn. 
399. C. Seolymus, Linn. — The Artichoke grows almost wild, 
and is rather common in some few places where formerly gardens 
existed, and where doubtless it was cultivated. Alt. 3 '8. — Hab. S. 
of Europe. 
Tribe Cichoriacete. 
Cichorium, Linn. 
400. C. endivia, Linn. — Endive is cultivated in gardens. — Hab. 
E. Indies. 
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