LO72 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. ,) (PART DES 
App. I. Half-hardy Genera belonging to the Order Compésite. 
Though there are few plants belonging to the order Compdsite, whether hardy or aes» 
which are truly ligneous, yet there are a number which are suffruticose ; and which, though usually 
kept in the frame, green-house, or even stove, may be tried, with every prospect of success, at the base 
of a conservative wall, or on rockwork which is capable of being protected during winter. We shall 
notice the genera to which these belong in the order in which they are given in Lessing’s Synopsis, 
and chiefly refer for the species to our Hortus Britannicus. 
Carlowtxia salicifolia Moench, Onobroma salicifdlia Link, is a native of Madeira, growing to the 
height of 2ft. It is an erect shrub, with hoary leaves, resembling those of a willow. 
Arctotis L. This is a very interesting family consisting of undershrubs, all natives of the Cape of 
Good Hope, and very splendid when in flower. The colour of the rays is yellow, orange, purple, or 
white. Several, or perhaps all, of them might partly be preserved at the base of a conservative wall. 
A. dspera L. (Bot. Reg., t. $4.) has yellow rays, and grows to the height of 3ft., flowering from June 
to September. 

Didélia carndsum and D. spindsum H. K. are Cape shrubs, growing to the height of 3 ft., and flow- 
ering in June and July. y 
Berckheya Ehrh. is a Cape genus, of which there are 7 suffruticose species introduced, which 
grow to the height of 3 ft., and produce their yellow flowers from June to August 
B. grandifldra W. (Bot. Mag., t. 1844.) is often in collections. 
Cuilimia R. Br. is a Cape genus of evergreen undershrubs, of which 3 species 
have been introduced,’which grow to the height of 2 ft., and produce their bright 
yellow flowers from May to August. 
Othkénna is a Cape genus, of which there are numerous low undershrubs, 
evergreen, some of them rising as high as 3ft. O. flabellifdlia Bot. Cab., t. 
728. O. virginea L. and our fig. 847.; O. pinndta Bot. Mag., t. 768.; O. pec- 
siege Bot. Mag., t. 306.; and O. coronopifolia; are species frequent in col- 
ections. 
Ostcospérmum is a Cape genus of low evergreen shrubs, growing to the 
height of 8 ft. or 10 ft., and producing their yellow flowers from April to August. 
Several of them are figured in our Encyclopedia of Plants ; and O. pistferum 
L. (Bot. Cab., t.470.; and our figs. 848, 849, and 850.) will give a some idea of 
the general appearance of the genus. 
Caléndula is a genus of which several species are natives of the Cape, and 
are evergreens, rising as high as 2ft. or 3 ft., producing yellow flowers from 
April to August. All the species are beautiful. C. chrysanthemifolia Ven. (Bot. 
Reg., t. 40. ; and our/fig. 851.), may serve to exemplify the genus. 

Mutisia Cav. This is an exceedingly interesting genus of shrubby climb- 
ers, with leaves terminating in tendrils, by the 852 ; Ei 
prehension of which the stems are supported. 
The species are natives of South America, and 
only three of them, as far as we know, have 
yet been introduced. MM. latifolia D. Don in 
Brit. Fl.-Gard.,2d ser., t. 288.,and our fig.852., 
is a native of Valparaiso, which has flowered in 
a frame at Kilmington Rectory, Wilts. The 
flowers are pale pink and yellow, and the leaves 
cordate-oblong, ending in a scollop, or notch, 
the midrib of the leaf being extended up the 
blade of the leaf, through the centre of the 
notch, and being continued into a tendril 3 in. = 
long. MM. arachnotdea Mart. (Bot. Mag., t. 
2705.) is a native of Brazil, with red flowers, 
produced in July and August. A plant, ap- 
parently of the former species has stood out ” 
three winters in the Clapton Nursery, without 
the slightest protection, and appears perfectly 
hardy. Muttsia latifolia represents a family of : 
climbers so very different from every other hitherto propagated in British 
