Tas. 7455. 
GAZANIA prema. 
Native of South East Africa. 
Nat. Ord. Composira.—Tribe ArcToTIDER, 
Genus Gazania, Gerin,; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 459.) 
GazANIa pyymexa; perennis, foliis anguste lineari-oblanceolatis obtusis in- 
tegerrimis v. remote denticulatis rarius subpinnatifidis supra viridibus 
margines versus scaberulis, subtus tomento appresso niveis, scapis 
‘sepius aphyllis, capitulis amplis, involucri campanulati basi plus- 
minusve intrusi bracteis linearibus liberis v. in tubum connatis apicibus 
liberis, floribus radii albis dorso medio purpureovel violaceo fasciatis, 
disci aureis, acheniis filis elongatis flexuosis crinitis, pappi setis subulatis 
denticulatis. 
G. pygmea, Sonder in Linnza, vol. xxiii. (1850) p. 69. Harvey in Harv. & 
Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. iii. p. 478. WN. £. Br. in“ The Garden,” April 27th, 
1895, cum Ie. pict. 
G. canescens, Harv. J. c. 
G. nivea, Leichtl. in Wien. Illustr. Gartenz. (1894) 81, f. 21. 
G. bracteata, N. EH. Br. in Gard. Chron, (1894) vol. i. p. 620. 
In a revision of some of the species of Gazania by Mr. 
N. HE. Brown, contributed to ‘‘ The Garden,” that botanist 
observes of the genus, that ‘it is one of the most perplex- 
ing that a botanist has to deal with.” It includes between 
twenty and thirty species, and is exclusively African in 
so far as at present known, and chiefly South Eastern 
African, though outlying species have been found as far 
north as Abyssinia. The chief difficulties that are en- 
countered in the study of the species are owing to the 
great variability of the foliage of many, from quite entire 
and very narrow to pinnatifid and bipinnatifid, and in the 
case of G. pygmexa to the extraordinary diversity in the 
amount of confluence of the involucral bracts, from being 
nearly free, to forming a campanulate cup. 
Gazania pygmea has a very wide range of distribution 
in South Africa. It was discovered by the eminent South 
African traveller, Dr. Burchell, the earliest explorer of 
the regions it inhabits, who collected it in various localities 
in Bechuana and Griqua Lands, between the years 1811 and 
January Ist, 1896. 
