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1814, and it has since been found by many botanists and 
collectors at elevations of 4-5000 ft. in the Transvaal, the 
Orange Free State, and as far north as Matabele Land (by 
the Rev. W. Elliott). The earliest information I have ob- 
tained as to the date of its introduction in Europe is from 
specimens in the Kew Herbarium, sent by Mr. Max Leichtlin 
of Baden Baden in June, 1893; and in the same year by 
Mr. Gumbleton, who raised them from seeds sent him from 
Natal by Mr. Adlam. Living specimens sent by the latter 
gentleman flowered in the open air at Kew, and from these 
and others also sent by Mr. Gumbleton, the accompanying 
figures were made. 
Descr.—Root fusiform, sometimes as thick as the thumb, 
giving off many flowering and leafing crowns. Leaves three 
to five inches long, narrowly oblanceolate, obtuse, quite en- 
tire or distantly minutely denticulate, bright green above, 
white with appressed wool beneath, margins recurved, sides 
above and surface more or less scaberulous. Scapes longer 
than the leaves, stout, pale brown or pinkish, naked, or 
with one reduced leaf. lower heads two inches and upward 
in diameter. Jnvolucre campanulate, glabrous, brown, base 
rounded or intruded ; bracts linear, obtuse, confluent below 
and spreading above, or all confluent with a campanulate 
or subcylindric cup with four greenish tips. Ray-fl. very 
numerous, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, white with a broad 
dorsal violet or purple band. Disk-fls. yellow. Achenes 
clothed with long flexuous hairs. Pappus hairs subulate, 
rigid, erect, denticulate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. A, Plants that flowered at Kew; B and C sent by Mr. Gumbleton :— 
fig. 1, fl. of disk; 2, achene and pappus; 3, bristle of pappus; 4, stamens :— 
All enlarged. 
