Herbarium is a starved one, with very small leaves and 
flowers, from the channel of the Zwartkop River in Uiten- 
hage. HEcklon’s type of the species was from the Coega 
River, near Elandstroom. There are good specimens in 
the Herbarium, collected at Port Elizabeth by Mrs. 
Holland, with peduncles five to eight inches high. The 
specimen here figured was raised from Port Elizabeth seeds 
presented to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. William 
Armstong in 1895, It was grown as a summer bedding- 
out plant, attaining eighteen inches in height, and flowering 
in July. 
Descr.—Stem branching, shrubby, with herbaceous, 
scaberulous, leafy branchlets, and terminal axillary 
peduncles. Leaves three to five inches long, oblanceolate, 
subsessile, acute obtuse or apiculate, sparingly serrate or 
toothed, nearly glabrous, pale green, midrib beneath very 
stout; nerves few, erecto-patent ; uppermost leaves linear- 
oblong, obtuse, quite entire, lowermost sinuate-lobed. 
Head three inches in diameter. Jnvolucral bracts half an 
inch long, appressed, lanceolate, acuminate, green. Ray- 
florets about sixteen, tube very short, hispid ; limb one to 
one and a quarter inches long, oblanceolate, white above, 
violet-blue and striate beneath, with a broad white border ; 
style very short. Disk small, florets azure; corolla-tube 
setulose; lobes very short, much thickened dorsally.— 
dD. i: : 
Fig. 1, Base of corolla, immature achene and style of ray-flower; 2, disk- 
flower ; 3, corolla-lobe of do. ; 4, stamens; 5, style :—A/l enlarged. 
