Burkeane. N. O. Ranunculacee. 
TAB. DLXXXIX. 
Ciematis STANLEYI. n. sp. 
Erecta, fruticosa, ubique sericeo-tomentosa, foliis tripinati- 
sectis laciniis oblongis acutis, panicula terminali foliosa, 
floribus nutantibus {inter maximos), sepalis obcordato- 
rotundis utrinque  sericeis, staminibus -numerosissimis, 
ovariis sericeis caudibus elongatis sericeo-plumosis. 
Has. Macalisberg, interior of South Africa. Burke, (n. 157.) 
This is, assuredly, the handsomest species of an extensive and 
handsome genus, and deserves to bear the name of that noble- 
man, Lord Derby, through whose liberal patronage of natural 
history, the plant is made known to us. Its discoverer remarks 
that it forms a shrub, (apparently several feet in height), 
every where clothed with silky tomentum, so as to have a good 
deal the appearance of the silky variety of the North American 
Anemone patens. The flowers are as large as those of our 
Corn-Poppy, and, judging from the dried specimens, purple. 
Fig, 1. Pistil:—magnified. 
