the resemblance to the well-known Cape Aster (CINERARIA 
amelloides), lately separated by M. Cassini from CINERARIA 
by the title of Acarnaa celestis, 
M. Nees appears to have some doubt whether our plant 
may not be the same as the Acarıza macrophylla of M. 
Cassini; but observes that the seed is described as smooth 
or bare in that, while in the present species it is furred; 
neither does he think it likely that the peculiar character 
belonging to the pappus (seedcrown) should have escaped so 
acute an observer as that botanist. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Lately introduced 
by Mr. Anderson, the superintendant of the physic garden 
at Chelsea; having been raised from the seed received from 
Mr. Otto, who has the charge of the botanic garden at 
Berlin. 
Annual or biennial. Sfem numerously branched from 
the very base, about a foot high; branches widespread, 
crooked, round, shagreened, with a nap of stiff-spreading 
hairs. Leaves alternate, sessile, spreading, lanceolately 
spatulate, tipped by a small point, minutely and widely 
toothletted, keeled, with rough nap on both sides, stiffish. 
Flowers terminal, long-stalked, cernuous. Peduncle round, 
beset with small glandular points and spreading hairs, leaf- 
less above, furnished with a few smaller lanceolate leaves 
below. Calyx simple, rough-furred, even; leaflets (13) 
14-16, lanceolate, obtuse, membranously edged, close- 
pressed, with a strong keeled herbaceous back. Corolla 
rayed: florets of the ray pistilbearing (bright blue), many 
and contiguous (in the flowers we examined 7-8, and scarcely 
contiguous), ligulate; tube filiform, furred, limb oblong, 
becoming revolute, about à of an inch long, obtuse, triply 
notched at the end. Germen cuneiform (wedge-shaped) 
compressed, with an extremely short pedicle by which it is 
secured in the cavities of the receptacle, furred. Style 
hardly longer than the tube: stigma forked: pappus (seed- 
crown) none, except an exceedingly short villous fringe. 
Florets of the disk deep violet, bearing both anthers and stig- 
ma, tubularly funnelled, most of them inbowed; tube furred; 
limb 5-cleft spreading. Anthers, like those of the rest of 
the tribe, connate, dark; (pollen cream-coloured). Germen 
like that of the ray; style the length of the filaments; 
stigma forked, prongs revolute: pappus (seedcrown) of stiff- 
