with the same name, as was supposed by Jacquin and.Will- 

 denow. Arctotis crithmoides of Bergius is Sphenogyne 

 crithmifolia of Mr. Brown in the Hortus Kewensis, and the 

 same with Arctotis paleacea of Linneens as well as Arctotis 

 Jceniculacea of Jacquin, It is this inadvertence in Willde- 

 now that has occasioned the repetition of paleacea and pili- 

 feray in his Species Plantainim, under the 'titles of crith- 

 moides ajidjwniculacea. 



PUif'era in general appearance comes so near to Arcto- 

 tis paradoxa (Ubsinia paradoxa of Geertner) that the two 

 are not easily distinguishable without an attentive inspec- 

 tion of the flower. In paradoxa the pappus is much longer 

 than the germen, and nearly as long as the florets, and the 

 paleae of the receptacle are higher than the disk, the florets 

 of which they envelop all the way round ; in pilifera the 

 pappus is shorter than the germen and several times shorter 

 than the floret, and the palese of the receptacle lower than 

 the disk, the florets of which they envelop only half way 

 rotmd ; the anthers are black in the first, yellow in the se- 

 cond ; the segments of the florets of the disk have a dark- 

 coloured callus at their back in paradoxa, but not in pi- 

 lifera. 



Is it likely that the two should be the counterparts of a 

 dioicous species ? 



We suspect the inner series of the double pappus at- 

 tributed by Gsertner to his Ursinia paradoxa to be a mere . 

 remnant of the floret itself, and that the plant is a veiy 

 good Sphenogyne. Neither Linnseus nor Solander has 

 noticed this second pappus, though the latter has described 

 very minutely this member of the seed in a manuscript 

 note concerning paradoxa in the Banksian Library. 



The drawing was taken in the greenhouse of the nursery 

 belonging to Messre. Colvill in the King's Road, where the 

 plant had been raised from seed from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, and was in flower during last December. We are 

 not aware that it has been intrcwSuced into this country be- 

 fore. It is a branching upright thi<;kly-leaved bush about 

 two feet high. The ray of the corolla rolls itself close up 

 backwards in the evening, and spreads again in the morn- 

 ing, for several days in succession. The flower when 

 bruised smells like Chamomile. 



Sphenogyne is a wholly South African group, partly 

 herbaceous, but chiefly shrubby. 



