Tas. 8049, 
FELICIA ECHINATA. 
South Africa. 
Composit. Tribe AsTEROIDE. 
Feruicia, Cass.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 274; Harv. in Harv. 
et Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. iii. p. 69, sab Astere. 
Felicia echinata, Nees, Gen. et Sp. Aster. p. 216; DO. Prodr. vol. v. p. 222; 
ab affini /. reflera, DC. (Bot. Mag. t. 884) floribus radii ceruleis, 
achzeniis disci pilosis pappoque differt. 
Fruticulus 1-2 ped. altus. Rami erecti, dense foliati, longiuscule pilosi. 
Folia sessilia, patula vel + deflexa, oblongo-lanceolata, pungenti-apiculata, 
basi angustata, 4-10 lin. longa, 13-3 lin. lata, longiuscule ciliata (rarius 
nuda), obscure pellucido-punctata. Pedunculi solitarii terminales vel 
plures corymbosi, sparse foliati. Involucri bractexe lanceolato-oblonge, 
acuminate, pellucido-marginatez, dense ciliolate, extra glabre vel + 
hispide. Flores radii: tubus 1-13 lin. longus, superne, ut ligule basis, 
extra sparse pilosus; ligula 4-5 lin. longa, 2-1 lin. lata, apice tridentata. 
Achsenia glabra; pappi setee 13-2 lin. longs, inconspicue barbellate. 
Flores disci: tubus 13-2 lin. longus, extra glaber (vel supra minutissime 
puberulus) ; lobi 3 lin. longi, } lin. lati. Achzenia subappresse pilosa; 
pappus forum radii—Felicia Paralia, DC. Prodr. vol. v. p. 222. Pteronia 
echinata, Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 629. Aster echinatus, Less. Syn. Comp. 
p- 177; Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. iii. p. 77. 
Felicia echinata has been grown in the Temperate House 
at Kew for many years, but does not seem to have been 
recorded hitherto as cultivated in Europe. As grown at 
Kew formerly, F. echinata was a loose, straggling, few- 
flowered shrub, but it has now, by repeated cutting-back, 
been made to assume a compact form, and to flower freely 
in spring. 
Harvey (Fl. Cap. vol. iii. p. 77) distinguished two 
varieties, a. echinata proper and B. Paralia (Felicia 
Paralia, DU.), differing chiefly in the hairiness of the 
involucral bracts, but it seems undesirable to keep up his 
varieties, since they are connected by intermediate forms, 
as he himself admitted. 
The fact of the disc achenes of F. echinata being 
pilose was not noticed by De Candolle, who, followed by 
Harvey, placed the species in a section with glabrous 
achenes. 
Descr.—A small shrub, one to two feet high. Branches 
erect, very leafy, covered with longish hairs. Leaves 
DecemBeER Ist, 1905, 
