Tas. 6528. 
ARCTOTIS aspera, var. arborescens. 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat. Ord. Composttm.—Tribe ARCTOTIDEX. 
Genus Arcrorts, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 458.) 
Arcrotis (Euarctotis) aspera ; suffruticosa, ramosa, hispido-pilosa, ramis validis 
sulcatis ascendentibus, foli's oblongis lineari-oblongisve pinnatifidis inferioribus 
petiolatis superioribus sessilibus auriculato-semi-amplexicaulibus, costa crassa, 
segmentis lato-ovatis oblongisve basi lata decurrentibus grosse irregalariter 
acute dentatis undulatisque supra hispidis glabratisve subtus plus minusve 
cano-tomentosis, capitulis magnis, involucri late hemispherici squamis exteri- 
oribus ovatis herbaceis hispidis, intimis panduratis truncatis coriaceis, ligulis 
pollicaribus obtusis, acheniis basi sericeis, pappi squamis interioribus oblongis 
cuneatisve apice rotundatis v. 2-3-fidis. 
A. aspera, Linn. Sp. Pl. 13807; DC. Prodr. vol. vi. p. 488 ; Harv. et Sond. F7. 
Cap. vol. iii. p. 453. 
‘Var. arporescens, DC. 1. ¢, 488; ramis foliisque subtus tomentosis, pedunculis 
nigro-pilosis, ligulis extus roseis intus niveis basi aurantiacis.—A. arborescens 
Jacq. Hort. Schenb. vol. ii. tab. 171. 
The genus Arctotis is little known to horticulturists, 
although one species, the present, of the thirty described, 
has long been known in botanic gardens, and no less than 
thirteen are figured in Jacquin’s “ Hortus Schoenbrunensis,” 
from specimens that flowered in the Imperial Botanic 
Garden of Vienna during the last century. Sixteen (ex- 
clusive of one referred to Venidiwm) are enumerated in 
the “ Hortus Kewensis” as being in cultivation in 1813, 
and there are five others enumerated as species in that 
work which are now regarded as varieties. The present is 
one of the most beautiful of the genus; it was cultivated 
in England before 1710, and in Holland much earlier, for it is 
described in Johan Commelyn’s “ Hortus Medicus Amstelo- 
damensis,” published in 1697, as “ Anemolospermos 
Africana, foliis Cardui Benedicti, florum radiis intus sul- 
phureis.” | 
According to De Candolle 4A. aspera 18 a very variable 
DECEMBER 18F, 1880. : 
