cles terminal, erect, very long, single flowered, having 

 many slender grooves, and one or two subulate bracteas. 

 Anthodium nearly globular, when in bud glabrous, coloured, 

 inner scales blunt, scariose, slender, coloured at the apex, 

 outer ones subulate, keeled, and reddish brown. Flowers 

 (above three-fourths of an inch long, one inch across) 

 rather handsome, yellow. Florets of the ray neuter, nu- 

 merous, erect, subplicate, orange-red on the outside, and 

 sprinkled with shining dots, yellow within, elliptical, atten- 

 uated at the base, and there distant ; tube short, including 

 the rudiments of a style, three-toothed at the apex. Florets 

 of the disk very short, yellow, erect, regular, terminating in 

 five blunt teeth, and furnished with small, erect, crystalline, 

 glandular pubescence on the outside. Stamens subex- 

 serted, yellow. Pistil rather longer than the stamens; 

 Style cleft, revolute ; Germen woolly at the base : Pappus 

 marginate, lobed. Receptacle covered with carinate, chaffy 

 scales, which are shorter than the florets of the disk. 



We received this plant from Kew as a species of Arc- 

 totis, native of the Cape of Good Hope. It requires the 

 protection of a greenhouse during Winter, and flowers 

 freely in the open air during the month of July. Graham. 



Fig. 1. Central Floret with its accompanying Scale. 2. Floret of the 

 Ray . — Magnified. 



