ritier, the founder of the genus, from a native sample in the 

 Banksian Herbarium. We have not retained the synonym 

 quoted by Willdenow, from Thunberg's ■ Prodromus, the 

 leaves in that being described as bare or smooth, while in 

 this they are furnished with both a downy and a strigilose 

 pubescence. 



Introduced by Messre. Colvill, of the King*s Road, 

 Chelsea, with whom it flowered last September in the 

 greenhouse, having been grown from seed from the Cape 

 of Good Hope. 



The genus includes 19 published species, of which only 

 one besides the present is noticed as being in our gardens ; 

 and that belongs to a different section. They are all from 

 South Africa. 



A small weak, slender, branching shrub; branches leafy 

 all the way, and tomentosely grey in the young wood. 

 Leaves acerose, rigid, sessile, ascending, scattered, rather 

 wide-set, linearly subulate, about 4 of an inch long, entire, 

 on the outside convex fluted slightly tomentose roughened 

 by short hard inclined bristles and green, on the inside 

 concave and tomentosely whitened, point spinous brown. 

 Flowers yellow, terminal, sessile, solitary, enveloped below 

 by the leaves of the branches, more than an inch in dia- 

 meter. Cali/x oblong, turbinate or narrowing downwards, 

 light-yellowish brown, much higher than the disk of the 

 flower, closely imbricated below and chequered by small 

 downy white compartments, radiately extended above and 

 quite smooth: leaflets very unequal, inner ones spatulately 

 ligulate with a lanceolate lamina (blade) rather broader than 

 the unguis (claw). Radius of the corolla nnmQvow^, florets 

 pistilbearing, closish, lamina obversely ligulate unindented 

 2-plaited, reddish down the middle of the back, convolutely 

 folded when the ray converges at sunset. 



