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with divided leaves an inch long, green and 
smooth above and grey beneath, with spotless 
white flowers little more than an inch across 
and striped with purple on the under side. 
From around Colesberg in Cape Colony, into 
the Orange State. 
G. Lichtensteinii. — An annual species, with 
prostrate stems sparingly branched and bearing 
narrow oval leaves, flat or very little rolled, 
and clothed when young with a soft down, 
soon disappearing from the upper surface. 
Yellow flowers of inches, with a ring of 
dark brown spots, and purple shading upon 
the outer petals. Namaqualand. 
G. longiscapa. — An old kind and one of the 
best, growing as an erect grass-like herb into 
dense tufts of dark green leaves, white on the 
reverse. Bright golden flowers, borne well 
above the foliage and among the earliest kinds 
to open ; the flowering may be retarded by 
pinching the earliest buds. South Africa. Syn. 
Gazaniopsis stenophylla. 
G. montana. — A dwarf plant growing as a 
tuft of many stemless crowns, with erect grassy 
leaves of bright green with silver reverse, and 
sparingly covered with down. The flowers 
appear upon tall reddish stems of 9 or 10 
inches and are white with a ring of deep 
yellow surrounding the golden disk, and the 
outer side of the flower shaded with rosy- 
violet. A beautiful and free-flowering plant, 
best grown in pots. There is a variety alba^ 
in which the flowers are pure white. 
G. Pavonia. — A robust plant with erect sub- 
shrubby stems of as much as 1 8 inches ; downy 
leaves, simple or divided, and rolled at the 
edges. Large flowers of rich orange yellow 
with dark blotches at the base of the petals, 
which are again just touched with white in 
the centre. An old plant cultivated for more 
than a century, fine in colour in a good season. 
Cape of Good Hope. A variety aurea is of 
more trailing habit, with greyish green foliage 
and prostrate stems finely spotted with red. 
The flowers are golden yellow, marked in the 
same way with black and white at the base of 
the petals, and are very handsome. Grows 
better in pots than in the open, both forms 
being well worthy of cultivation. Syn. Gor- 
teria Pavonia. 
G.pinnata. — A species emitting many stems 
from a woody base, with leaves divided into 
narrow lobes and covered with short stifle hairs 
above. Erect flowers of 3 or more inches from 
June to August, yellow, with a ring of black 
spots around the disk. Syn. Mussinia pinnata. 
G. pygmcea. — A species forming a stemless 
tuft of grassy leaves, silvery-white beneath and 
with a distinct pale rib above ; white flowers 
of delicate texture, shaded with rosy-violet on 
the under side. Natal. Syn. G. bracteata. 
This is a very variable kind grown in several 
forms superior to the type, amongst which are 
latijiora (Lemoine) a fine free-flowering variety 
with broad-petalled flowers of great beauty, 
creamy-white striped with violet beneath. A 
good variety known as lutea., sent out by Dam- 
mann of Naples in 1 901, is a profuse bloomer 
of good habit with a long season of beauty and 
very large flowers of chrome yellow with a 
lighter zone around the disk. A third form, 
aurafitiaca, is yet more vigorous, growing 9 
or 10 inches with pale orange flowers, darker 
towards the base of the petals, with a ring of 
paler specks around the centre. Other seed- 
ling forms exist which difi^er widely in leaf 
and flower, the reverse of one kind being finely 
shaded with blue. 
G. rigens. — The oldest and most beautiful 
of Gazanias, in cultivation before 1755 ; its 
native country is now unknown, though be- 
lieved to be the district of Saldanah Bay or 
around Talbagh in East Africa. It is of free 
growth, reaching more than a foot in height, 
with a shrub-like base and smooth narrow 
leaves which are white and downy beneath ; 
flov/ers of rich orange, with a ring of black 
and white spots. By some authors this plant 
is held to be identical with G. splendens, but, 
having grown and compared the two, we pre- 
fer to regard splendens as a form of rigens and 
it is here classed as such. As the best known 
of all it is needless to describe G. splendens in 
detail. It is much used in sunny borders where 
its flowers of rich orange with a ring of double 
white spots edged with black and purple are 
I of fine effect ; a variety grown for carpet- 
bedding has the leaves variegated with yellow. 
There are in existence dried flowers (as also a 
coloured drawing) of a further handsome form 
of G. rigens known as purpurea^ with flowers 
of rich reddish purple marked with a dark 
