﻿PLATE DXXIII. 



GORTERIA P A V O N I A. 



Peacock Gorteria. 



CLASS XIX. ORDER IV. 



SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA NECESSARIA. Tips united. Necessary 

 Pointals. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Receptaculum nudum. Pappus lanatus. Co- II Receptacle naked. Down woolly. Blossom 

 rollaradiata, lingulata. Calyx monophyl- rayed, tongue- shaped. Empalement one- 



lus, squamis imbricatis tectus. || l ea fed, covered with imbricated scales. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 

 iis pinnatis: foliolis aequalibus, II Gorteria with winged leaves. The leaflets arc 

 irginibus revolutis, pilosis, sub- J equal, ovate, rolled back at the edges, luin-, 



petalis radii magnis, aurantiis, 1 and white beneath : petals of the ray large, 



of a gold-colour, and elegantly marked at 

 the base. Stem herbaceous. 



Gorteria fo!i 



ad basin eleganter notatis. Caulis 1: 



REFERENCE TO THE 



One of the radiating petals. 



The same shown from the under side, 



A petal as it appears when rolled up. 



This new spec.es of Gorteria stands foremost in the ranks of beauty whilst expanded by the solar 

 ray, whose absence is soon visible in the plant by the rolling up of the petals } but on the following 

 morn, when the suns beams begin to warm the vegetable world, they again unfold themselves with 

 •"^TT^ kUre ' and so conli »- —ively *» near a fortnight. 



Bg was made from a fine plant in the nursery of Mr. Harrison at Brompton. We also ob- 



• om at Messrs. Colville's, from whom, to complete the dissections, we received . ft** 



n >< bad been a week in bloom, continued to perform its diurnal evolutions (in a glass of 



water) of rolhng up and expanding for nearly a week longer-but only from eleven till one in the day: 



a i snorter time, most probably owing to its being kept in a room whose northern aspect prevented 



k C « „ /f 1 " 8 ^ ° f Phoebus from Weening. It was introduced from the Cape of Good Hope 



by G. Hubert, esq. about the year l 8t >4, and considered as biennial. 



