Tas. 6835. 
ARCTOTIS avurzona (upper figure). 
ARCTOTIS revotura (lower figure). 
Wadieas of tis aps of Cond Hope 
Nat. Ord. Compositz.—Tribe ARcToTIDER. 
Genus Arcromis, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 458.) 
AxrctToTis aureola; erecta v. decumbens, ramosa, niveo-lanata, foliis sessilibus 
oblongis obovato-oblongisve sinuato-pinnatitidis, lobis oblongis v. late ovatis 
apice rotundatis integris v. sublobatis supra lete viridibus, basi auriculatis 
auriculis lobatis, pedunculis lanatis et minutissime glanduloso-pilosis, capitulis 
3-44 poll. latis aureis aurantiacisve, involucri glabriusculi late hemispherici 
— late oblongis apice rotundatis viridibus nigro-limbatis, extimis linea- 
ribus recurvis, intimis scariosis, ligulis 2-seriatis obtusis, floribus disci aureis, 
stigmatibus piceis, acheniis lanatis, pappi squamis lineari-oblongis interioribus 
duplo majoribus. 
A. aureola, Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 32. 
A. aspera, Linn., var. y. aureola, DC. Prodr. vol. vi. p. 488. 
A. aspera, Linn., var. «. undulata, Berg.; Harv. Fl. Cap. vol. iii. p. 453. 
The genus Arctotis promises to be a puzzle to systematic 
botanists and horticulturists, and until a good many more 
of its forms are in cultivation it is impossible to define the 
species with any approach to confidence. The larger 
orange-yellow species here figured was obtained by Mr. 
Lynch at the Cambridge Botanical Gardens, under the 
name of A. speciosa, Jacq., a stemless very different-looking 
plant, figured at Plate 2182 of this work (and referred to 
A. acaulis, Linn., by De Candolle and Harvey). It was 
sent to Kew and examined by Prof. Oliver, who recognized 
it as A. awreola, Ker, a very old inhabitant of European 
gardens, though long since gone out of cultivation; and 
the question arises as to the name that A. aureola should 
bear ; for according to its author, Ker, it is the ‘A. wndulata 
of Gaertner, whereas De Candolle makes it a distinct variety 
(v. awreola) of A. aspera, Linn., in which he is followed by 
Harvey in the “ Flora Capensis,” who, however, takes the 
name of wndulata for the variety, and combines with it the 
A. cuprea, Jacquin. Now A. aspera is a half-shrubby 
SEPT. Ist, 1885. — 
