Tas. 8370. 
FELICIA PErioLaTa. 
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South Africa. 
ComrosiTaE. Tribe AsTEROIDEAE. 
Feuicra, Cass.; Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 274. 
Felicia petiolata, N.E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1906, p. 20, in obs.; Gard. Chron. 
907, vol. xlii. p. 81, fig. 34; affinis F. Cymbalariae, Schlechter (Aster 
1 Peal agi Ait.) sed foliis alternis et floribus radii multo majoribus 
e 
Suffrutec subprocumbens; rami subteretes, parce puberuli; ramuli juniores 
stricti, erecti, pilosi. Folia alterna, obovata vel lanceolata, apice obtusa 
vel subacuta, basi cuneata, 1-2°5 em. longa, 0°5-1°5 cm. lata, grosse 
serrata, subchartacea, utrinque pilosa, obscure pellucido-punctata, nervis 
lateralibus inconspicuis; petioli usque ad 5 mm. longi, pilosi. Pedunculi 
solitarii, terminales, parce foliati, usque ad 7 cm. longi. Jnvolucri bracteae 
oblongo-lanceolatae, acutissimae, 4-5 mm. longae, 1°5-2 mm. latae, extra 
parce pilosae, margine paulo membranaceo. Flores radii rosei, circiter 12; 
corollae tubus cylindricus, 3°5 mm. longus, parce puberulus; limbus 
oblongo-ellipticus, apice bifidus, 1 em. longus, 3 mm. latus, 5-nervis. 
Achaenia compressa, ambitu oblongo-obovata, 3 mm. longa, 1°5 mm. lata, 
breviter pubcscentia. Pappus uniseriatus, barbellatus, 3 mm. longus, 
Flores disci flavi; corollae tubus 5 mm. longus, glaber, lobis ovatis obtusis. 
Achueniu subteretia, 2 mm. longa, puberula. Pappus ut in floribus radii. 
—Aster petiolatus, Harv. Thes. t. 154, et in Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. iii. 
p. 80.—J. Hurcuinson. 
The pleasing Composite here figured was originally met 
with by Mr. T. Cooper in 1861, in Basutoland and in the 
Albert Division of Cape Colony, where it was found 
hanging over precipitous rocks, It appears never to have 
been collected again until 1903, when Mr. Dieterlin sent 
from Basutoland to the Botanic Garden, Montpellier, a 
herbarium specimen and some ripe achenes, thus effecting 
its introduction to European gardens. Several species of 
the genus Fvlicia have already been figured in this work : 
£, tenella, DC., as an Aster, at t. 33; F. refleca, DC., also 
as an Aster, at t. 884; and /” echinata, DC., at t. 8049. 
Like the last-mentioned species, J’, petiolata is a shrub of 
loose straggling habit, and therefore under cultivation it 
requires to be cut back frequently during the season of 
Aprin, 1911, 
