were raised. Its nearest ally is a species distributed by 

 Dr. Schlechter, under the manuscript name U. nama- 

 querists, which differs especially from U. cakilefolia in 

 having blunt outer involucral bracts. Mr. J. W. 

 Matthews, Cape Town, recommends sowing the seed of 

 U. cakilefolia early in March ; hardened off for planting 

 out in May, it should commence flowering in June, and 

 continue in flower till cut down by frost. He advises 

 a poor light sandy soil, and a sunny border or bank. 

 At Kew it has flowered in June under glass, and done 

 so freely, later in the summer, in a border. Semi- 

 procumbent in habit, it makes a bushy plant about a foot 

 high and as much through. It seeds freely, and at the 

 Cape the percentage of fertility is high. 



Description. —Herb about 1 ft. high, sparingly 

 branched at the base ; stem and branches green, sulcate, 

 glabrous. Leaves lax, 2-pinnatisect, 1J-2J in. long, 

 glaucous-green, glabrous ; segments linear, finely sharply 

 mucronate; petiole folded at the base, usually with 

 acute lateral lobules. Heads solitary, very long stalked, 

 about 2f in. across ; peduncles terminal, reaching 8 in. in 

 length. Involucre short, wide-campanulate, about * in. 

 deep, |-| in. across ; bracts about 6-seriate, gradually 

 longer from without inwards, the outer acutely acu- 

 minate, spreading or recurved, the intermediate and 

 inner with blunt membranous appendages, glabrous. 

 hay-florets 20-25, almost 2-seriate, spreading, orange 

 above rather paler beneath; corolla-tube 0; limb 

 oblong-lanceolate with entire tip, 1-11 in . iong> over 

 j in. wide, about 6-nerved; achenes abortive, linear, 

 sparingly hairy on the sides near the top. Disk-florets 

 blackish-purple; corolla tube cylindric below, narrow- 

 campanulate upwards, glabrous; lobes 5, triangular. 

 pappus-scales wide ovate or orbicular, membranous, 

 •nr m. long, glabrous. Achenes narrow obovoid, glabrous. 

 Aeceptacle-scales enveloping the disk-florets, sometimes 

 slightly toothed, membranous, glabrous. 



5 ™;nVSVT r " h l ad; 2and 3 ' ^olucral bracts; 4, base of ray-floret; 

 diskfloret 8 iff Wlt o r f c , e P tacI e-scale; 6, disk-floret ; 7, pappus-scale of 

 cast- floret, 8, anthers ; 9, style-ar ms ":-«« enlarged. 



