plant, of which he enumerates five varieties, the last being 
the subject of the present plate, distinguished by the white 
under-surface of the leaf, and colours of the ligules. This 
variety is omitted in Harvey and Sonder’s ‘“ Flora Capensis,” 
as is all notice of Jacquin’s beautiful figure, although the 
arborescens of Willdenow, another variety (var. scabra of 
Berg, A. maculata, Jacq. 1. c. t. 379) which must not be 
confounded with it, is there taken up. 
I am indebted to Mr. Lynch, Curator of the Cambridge 
University Botanical Gardens, for the specimen of this 
beautiful and interesting plant, which he informs me was 
formerly grown at Cambridge under the name of A. alba 
(an unpublished one). Mr. Lynch adds that it has made 
a most attractive bed during the past summer, its flowers 
having been very profuse and charming in colour. 
Drscr, An undershrub, one to three feet high, with 
stout grooved hispid ascending branches. Leaves five to 
eight inches long, pinnatifid; radical petioled; cauline 
sessile with broad auricled semi-amplexicaul bases, a very 
stout grooved midrib and nerves beneath; segments ovate 
or ovate-oblong, acute, decurrent, lobulate and coarsely 
toothed with waved edges, dark green above and hispid or 
glabrate, tomentose or cottony beneath. Heads two and 
a half inches in diameter, on stout peduncles clothed with 
blackish hairs. Involucre broadly campanulate; outer 
bracts ovate, subacute, herbaceous; inner much longer, 
panduriform, truncate, very coriaceous. Ligules about 
twenty, quite horizontal, obtuse, one to one and a half 
inches long, bright red outside, white within, but orange 
towards the base. Disk-flowers brownish. Achenes silky at 
the base; inner scales of pappus cuneate-oblong, obtusely 
lobed or entire at the tip.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Ray-floret; 2, disk-floret; 3, ditto, laid open; 4, ditto, unopened ; 
5, inner pappus-scales ; 6, stigma of ray-florets ; 7, stigma of disk-florets ; 8, recep- 
tacle; 9, inner bract of ditto ; 10, flower-bud :—adZ but Jigs. 8 to 10 enlarged. 
