Tas. 5252. 
DIMORPHOTHECA GrRaAmMINIFOLIA. 
Grassy-leaved Dimorphotheca. 
Nat. Ord. Composit™.—SYNGENESIA PoLyGAMIA NECESSARIA. 
Gen. Char. Capitula radiata, fl. radii foemineis ligulatis, disci exterioribus 
hermaphroditis tubulosis quinque-dentatis ad lobos extus appendiculatis, intimis 
masculis abortivis. Znvolucrum uniseriale, sguamis linearibus acuminatis. Recep- 
taculum planum, demum convexum, nudum aut paleis paucis deciduis instructum. 
Stylus flor. hermaphr. desinens in ramulos breves acutos apice rotundatos mar- 
gine glanduliferos extus piliferos, flor. fem. in ramulos longos glabros fissus. 
Achenia recta, calva, radii exalata obconica subtriquetra tuberculata, discz plano- 
compressa bialata, ais semine latioribus margine incrassatis—Herbe awé suffru- 
tices Capenses. Folia plus minus scabrida, alterna. Capitula ¢erminalia, solitaria ; 
= luteo aut fusco; ligulis’ supra albis, subtus purpurascentibus, nunc luteis. 
le Cand. 
DrmorPHotHeca (§ Lestibodea) graminifolia ; caulibus simplicissimis monoce- 
phalis subaphyllis, foliis ad collum plerisque confertis linearibus subinteger- 
rimis. De Cand. 
Dimorruorueca graminifolia. De Cand. Prodr. 
CALENDULA graminifolia. Linn. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 1305. Mill. Gard. Dict. n. 7; 
Icon. t. 16. f.1. Berg, Cap. p. 311. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 3. p. 271. ed. 2. 
v. 5. p. 167. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. p. 2345.  Loddiges, Bot. Cab. Bot. Reg. 
Ue Al! ee 
DrmorPHoruEca Statices folio. Vaill. Act. Paris, 1720, p. 280. 
_ Axcrortts tenuifolia. Poir. Suppl. v. 1. p. 439. 
Betuis Africana, florum pediculos foliosis, foliis angustis et integris. Commel. 
Hort. v. 2. p. 67. t, 34. 
Were this not so straggling a plant, it would surely be a greater 
favourite in our greenhouses than it is; but the flowers want com- 
pactness, handsome as they are individually ; so that, though 
known in European gardens as early as 1698, when it was intro- 
duced into Holland from the Cape, it has never been generally 
cultivated, and has often been lost to the country. We raised it 
recently from seeds sent from South Africa; it also strikes rea- 
dily from cuttings. It might make a good summer bedding-out 
plant, if the stems were well pegged down. Our drawing was 
made in April of 1861. . 
Duscr. Stems between herbaceous and woody, weak, terete, 
JUNE lst, 1861. 
