with a rigid, sharps orange-coloured spine. Peduncle ter» 

 minal, half a foot long, rounded, cottony, bearing a single, 

 large, radiated, yellow Jiower. Calyx imbricated : outer 

 leaflets exactly resembling the leaves, but smaller, the inner 

 series gradually diminishing and becoming less spinous, 

 innermost series linear-lanceolate, ciliated : all of them ap- 

 peared to us to be distinct to the base. Receptacle honey- 

 combed : cells deep with ragged chaffy edges. Seed buried 

 in the cells, hairy from the base, and crowned with a chaffy 

 many-cleft pappus, whose segments are ciliated. Radius 

 barren. 



A greenhouse shrub. Native of the Cape of Good-Hope. 

 Tlowers in June. Not mentioned in the Hortus Kewensis. 



Communicated by Messrs. Jenkins and Gwyther, New- 

 Road, who are preparing an extensive Botanic Garden for 

 the use of subscribers ; which, from its vicinity to the centre 

 of the metropolis and the enjoyment of the pure air of the 

 Regent's Park, promises to be a great acquisition to London 

 Botanists, 



