som. We had never indeed observed a plant of it in any of 

 our gardens before last summer, when several flowered in 

 the greenhouse of the nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the 

 King's Road, having been raised from seed from the Cape 

 of Good Hope. 



In the Hortus Kewensis the species is marked as a 

 shrub ; but we suspect it to be only suiFrutescent and bien- 

 nial ; for none of the plants we had seen survived the season 

 of their flowering. 



SufFrutescent ? silkily furred, branching, 2-3 feet high; 

 stem about as thick as a common pen; branches long, 

 straggling, herbaceous. Leaves greyish green, sessile, 

 elongatedly oblong, subcuneate, with a short abrapt point ; 

 from an inch to an inch and a half in length or more, 

 partly alternate, partly opposite. Peduncles at the ends olf 

 the branches, solitary, oneflowered, straight, round, slightly 

 villous. Calyx twice shorter than the ray or more, turbi- 

 nate, herbaceous, imbricate ; leaflets not veiy unequal, 

 upright, linearly taper-pointed, convex at the back, point 

 sphacelate and purplish. Ray of thefioicer pistilbearing, of 

 a lilac-blue, numerous, rolling itself up backwards in the 

 evening, opening again in the morning; lamina of the 

 jl<yrets obversely ligulate, 2-pIaited, obsoletely indented at 

 the end; tube twice shorter slender cylindrical villous : style 

 deep yellow with two slightly protruded linear stigmas: 

 germen oblong, tapered downwards, narrow, angular, 

 white; pappus (seedcrown) chafly extremely short consist- 

 ing of a few (4-5-6?) teethlike palese: fiorets of the disk 

 stamen and pistilbearing, deep yellow, numerous, higher 

 than the calyx, funnelform; tube twice shorter than the 

 long widish cylindrical partly smooth partly villous faiM?; 

 Zim? short reflex : style VfliitQ, stigmas % protruded, linear, 

 deep yellow, recurved, ending in a subsagittately pointed 

 villous lobe : JUaments flexuose : pollen orange-yellow. Ger- 

 men cuneate, compressed, white; pappus white setaceous 

 denticulate short (but longer than in the ray) scanty : recep- 

 tacle chaffy: palece equal to the florets of the disk, scariose, 

 brown-pointed. 



