Calyx imbricate, inner scales rounded, smooth, with a pur- 

 plish brown scariose margin : outer ones smaller, ovate, ter- 

 minated with a pencil of soft white hairs, nodding before the 

 flower expands. Receptacle honeycombed, bristly. Germans 

 covered with wool, which nearly conceals the paleaceous 

 pappus. Floscules of the ray many, sterile, slightly three- 

 toothed at the point, two-ribbed, pale yellow, purplish 

 underneath. Floscules of the disk hermaphrodite, cup- 

 shaped, smooth, greenish, with a black-purple five-cleft 

 border. Anthers connected, black-purple, shorter than the 

 floscule. Stigma exserted, covered with the yellow pollen, 

 cylindrical, finally divaricate. 



Cryptostemma is a genus established by Mr. Robert 

 Brown from the heterogeneous assemblage formerly ar- 

 ranged under Arctotis, and has its name from the wool of 

 the seed partly concealing the paleaceous pappus with 

 which it is crowned. 



There exists the greatest confusion in the synonomy of 

 Arctotis calendulacea and hypochondriaca ; WiLLDENowhas 

 applied Commelin's synonym, which is a good representa- 

 tion of our plant, to both. Jacquin's figure differs from our 

 plant in the smaller size, in the leaves being narrower, in 

 the florets of the ray being sharper pointed and quite entire, 

 and of a greener colour ; but it should be observed that in 

 drying, the florets of the ray in our plant become quite green 

 and sharp pointed. It is possible that they may be distinct 

 Species, but we consider them as varieties, and have en- 

 deavoured to apply the synonyms adapted to each. 



Native of the Cape of Good-Hope. A tender annual. 

 Flowers in May and June. Communicated by Messrs 

 Chandler and Buckingham of the Vauxhall Nursery 



