A handsome showy plant, a native of South Africa, with 

 a stout stem, singularly glaucous and fleshy leaves, and 

 copious handsome yellow flowers. It was grown in the 

 Dutch Gardens in the days of Commelinus (nearly two 

 hundred years ago), but does not appear to have been 

 cultivated in England till now, when we find it in the 

 Birmingham Botanic Garden. It is a greenhouse plant, 

 and flowers during the latter end of summer. 



Descr. Stem erect, two or three feet high, nearly as 

 thick as one's finger, suffruticose, but succulent, rounded, 

 glabrous, purplish-green. Leaves alternate, sessile, obo- 

 vate, acute, entire or obscurely angulato-dentate, and 

 somewhat thick and fleshy, glaucous-green. Panicles 

 terminal, many-flowered, bearing small leaves or bracteas 

 at the setting on of their branches, which are oblong-acute. 

 Involucre turbinate, of one leaf, thick and fleshy at the base, 

 cut into about eight equal, spreading, acute teeth. Ray of 

 about eight ligulate female florets, yellow, spreading much 

 longer than the breadth of the disk, obscurely three-toothed 

 at the apex. Germen oblong-obovate, furrowed as it ripens 

 into perfect fruit, downy towards the top, and bearing a 

 pappus of numerous scabrous hairs. Disk yellow, of many 

 tubular-male florets. Germen elongated, slender, abortive. 

 Pappus of few hairs. 



Fig 1 Involucre laid open, from which are removed all the Florets but 

 one tubular and one ligulate one. 2. Nearly mature Achenium with the 

 Corolla still attached to it. 3. Hair from the Pappus. 4. Stigmas:- 

 magnified. rx ° 



