woody plant, a foot high, and flowered for the first time this 
year, producing but one flower-head. Though not, as above 
stated, enumerated in the ‘‘ Hortus Kewensis,” this plant has 
been cultivated for many years at Kew, where there is no 
record of its origin. It forms a small suffrutescent herb a few 
inches high, in the Succulent House, growing freely enough. 
Haworth again (Pl. Succ., 314) says, “This extraordinary 
. plant has not yet produced any flowers with me. It is 
completely enveloped in a short dense skin-like cover of 
cottony wool, which is even capable of being stripped off the 
leaves like a skin, leaving the leaves themselves green after 
being divested of it. This cotton, if lighted in the flame of 
a candle, &., slowly consumes in the manner of touch-paper, 
owing to the resinous quality this genus abounds in. 
_ C. tomentosa is capable of living very long without water, as 
are also other woolly succulents, &c.” The absence of the 
conical points to the stigma of this species would remove it 
from Kleinia as characterized by most authors; its habit and 
capitulum are, however, those of the peculiar group of chiefly 
South African plants to which that name was originally 
applied. 
Duscr. A small undershrub, with spreading roots and 
erect much branched stems, wholly clothed with a soft silvery 
appressed snow-white wool, exposing when removed a very 
pale green cuticle. Sem and branches cylindric, as thick as a 
goose-quill. Leaves one to two inches long, cylindric or ellip- 
soid, acute, narrowed into a very short petiole. Peduncle 
terminal, two inches long, stout, erect, with a few scattered 
linear acute bracts. Head erect, one and a quarter inches long, 
cylindric, discoid, many-flowered ; involucral-scales appressed, 
Inner series about eight, linear-oblong, acute, with a few outer 
rather shorter lanceolate ones, and some still smaller subulate 
ones at the base. Fowers longer than the involucre; achene 
small, papillose ; pappus hairs very slender and _ soft, 
silvery, equalling the slender tubular 5-lobed corolla ; anthers 
with obtuse tips and bases; style arms spreading, truncate, 
pubescent.—J/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, style arms; 3, pappus hairs :—all magnified. 
