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ARCTOTIS tricolor. 
Dwarf tricolor Arctotis, 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA NECESSARIA. 
Nat. Ord. ConyxmrERm. Jussieu gen. 177. 
Div. VII. Receptaculum paleaceum. Semen papposum, pappo 
plumoso aut piloso aut aristato (v. paleaceo). Flores sepius radiati. 
ARCTOTIS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 32. 
A. tricolor, acaulis; foliis lyratis, repandis, suprà obsoletê villosis, sub- 
tùs tomentosis; foliolis extimis calycinis totis linearibus subelavatis 
- erectis tomentoso-candicantibus cum mucrone recurvo. 
Arctotis tricolor. Jacq. hort. schanb; 2, 27. t. 159. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 
2349. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 169. 
Acaulis, perennis. Folia plurima, radicalia, multifaria, patentissima, 
4-5-uncialia, exteriora plura lyrata, repanda, "I-nervia, suprà obsolet2 
pubescentia, tactui asperiuscula, nervis arachnoidea, subtüs land arancosd 
candicantía, lobo terminali ovato-oblongo, lateralibus paucis obliquis obtusis 
integris; interiora pauca erectiora laminá ovato-lanceolatá integra. Scapi 
villosi, uniflori, sesunciales ad pedales, bracted vagá versús medium posit. 
Cal. campanulatus, subarachnoideus, at infra virescens, et foliolis nonnullia 
infimis candicantibus instar costarum insignitus; foliola intima subhyalinos 
scariosa, ovato-lanceolata, subrubentia. Radius 2 uncias transversa excedens, 
tridenticulato-acutus, intús ochroleuco-candicans, basi atropurpureo-maculatus, 
extits urascens. Discus nigricans. Germina radii et serierim aliquarum 
riphæricarum disci fertilia i sericeo-hirsuta, centrahiora' sierilia. nuda: 
Pappus serie simplici, paleaceus. 
Tricolor differs from acaulis, which appeared in the 
fasciculus of the last month, by a foliage, which is obso- 
letely villous on the upper side, not covered by a dense 
rough pile, and by a flower of a different colour; but more 
decidedly by the remarkable outer leaflets of the calyx, 
which are narrow linear subclavate recurvedly mucronate 
and of a.frosted white colour; the innermost ones are also 
more pointed than in acaulis. Lo 
The curious economy and sensitive property which we 
observed in the style and stigmas of aureola and aspera, and 
described in the 32d and 34th articles of this work, 
are likewise found in the three species since published, 
and will be so probably in many, if not all, others of 
the genus, 
