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Tas, 7514. 
BERKHEYA Aptamt. 
Native of the Transvaal. 
Nat. Ord. Comrosita.—Tribe ARCTOTIDE &, 
Genus Berxueya, Hhrh.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 460.) 
BrrxuHeys Adlami; caule elato alato, alis angustis. undulatis-spinulosis, foliis 
inferioribus subsessilibus sesquipedalibus obovato-oblongis obtusis 
sinuato-lobatis supra scabridis late viridibus brunneo maculatis subtus lana 
appressa niveis, nervis utrinque 20-30 setosis reticulatis, foliis superiori- 
bus linearibus  pinnatifido-lobatis, lobis rotundatis setoso-spinulosis 
sinubus recurvis, capitulis subcorymbosis 3} poll. diam. aureis, involucri 
bracteis lanceolatis patenti-recuryis marginibus apiceque spinuloso- 
ciliatis, receptaculo profunde alveolato, fl. radii sub-biseriatis linearibus 
3-denticulatis sterilibus, fl. disci numerosissimis, corolle tubo angusto 
puberulo, antheris basi sagittatis, stigmatis ramis linearibus revolutis, 
acheniis cuneiformibus, pappi squamis brevibus oblongis ciliatis. 
B. Adlami, Hook.f. — 
This is by far the largest species of Berkheya of 
which I have any knowledge. The genus contains about 
thirty species, natives of tropical and chiefly southern 
Africa. They vary in size from small plants about the 
size of a Daisy, to the tall and stout species here repre- 
sented, from glabrous to cottony, and from unarmed to 
spinulose. The flowers of both disk and ray are yellow 
in all. Berkheya belongs to the tribe of Arctotidee of 
Composite, which is almost exclusively South and tropical 
African, and is the representative of the Thistles (especially 
the Carlinas) of Europe and North Africa. The best 
known representative of the tribe in gardens is Arctotis ; 
but three species of Berkheya are figured in the early 
volumes of this magazine, when the culture of Cape plants 
‘was in vogue. These are B. (Stobxa) pinnata, Less. t. 
1788; B. grandiflora, Willd., t. 1844, and B. uniflora, 
Willd, t. 2094, 
B. Adlami was raised from seeds sent to the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, in 1895, by R. W. Adlam, Esq., of Johan- 
nesberg, plants raised from which flowered, some in a 
greenhouse, and others in the open air in June, 1896. 
As stated under t. 2094, the genus was named by 
JaNvuaRyY Ist, 1897, 
