head and the delicate colouring of the rays make it worthy 

 of a place in all South African Gardens. At Pretoria it 

 flowers freely and has set mature seed. 



Desckiption : — A herbaceous perennial 60-90 cm. high. 

 Leaves many, lyrate ; lower leaves 30-40 cm. long, 7-9 cm. 

 broad, lanceolate in outline, obtuse, produced at the base into 

 a long petiole, sparsely pubescent on the upper surface, white- 

 woolly on the lower surface ; leaf-lobes about 4 cm. long, 

 1-5*2 cm. broad, oblong, obtuse, with toothed margins; the 

 terminal lobe much larger, otherwise similar ; petiole up to 

 16 cm. long, flat on the upper surface, convex beneath, 

 sparsely glandular-pilose ; upper leaves sessile, lanceolate, 

 acute, sparsely pilose, with more or less entire margins. 

 Peduncles pale in colour at the base, gradually becoming 

 indian purple (E.C.S.) towards the apex, 17-19 cm. long, 

 terete, striate, pilose, the hairs becoming reddish and denser 

 towards the apex. Capitulum solitary, 7-9 cm. in diameter 

 when fully expanded. Involucral bracts many — seriate ; the 

 outer green, ovate, with a hairy subulate appendage; the 

 inner reddish and membranous at the apex. Receptacle 

 slightly convex. Ray-florets female. Corolla limb white or 

 shrimp-pink (R.C.S.) above, with a golden-yellow and purple 

 spot near the base, and eugenia red to Vandyke red (R.C.S.) 

 beneath. Pappus of several membranous scales as long as 

 the corolla-tube. Ovary with a dense tuft of basal hairs. 

 Disc-florets hermaphrodite. Corolla-tube 4-5 mm. long, cam- 

 panulate above, cylindrical below ; lobes lanceolate with black 

 tips. Pappus of several membranous scales about half length 

 of the corolla-tube. Ovary villous, with a dense basal tuft of 

 hairs. Fruit villous, crowned with the persistent pappus 

 scales. — E. Percy Phillips. 



Plate 3. — Fig. 1, portion of ray-floret ; Fig. 2, pappus-scale of ray-floret ; 

 Fig. 3, disc-floret ; Fig. 4, pappus-scale of disc-floret ; Fig. 5, apex of style 

 showing the stigmas ; Fig. 6, fruit ; Fig. 7, involucral-bracts (all enlarged). 



F.P.S.A., 1920. 



