HELIO'PHILA TRI'FIDA. 
TRIFID HELIOPHILA. 
Class. Order 
TETR ADYNAMIA. SILIQUOSA. 
Natural Order. 
BRASSICACEJS. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
C. G. Hope. 
9 inches. 
July, Sept. 
Annual. 
in 1819. 
No. 1154. 
The word Heliophila is compounded from the 
two Greek words helios, the sun ; and philos, to 
love. This name may at once be pronounced to be 
sufficiently applicable, when it is seen that the whole 
genus, consisting of about fifty species, are natives 
of that sunny, sandy, comer of the earth, the Cape 
of Good Hope. 
Although gardening, excepting grape culture, has 
been little attended to at the Cape of Good Hope, 
there exists a practice of the Malays, from which it 
would well become the more civilized British to 
learn. These people are exceedingly attentive to 
their burial grounds, which are not left the neg- 
lected, and it may be said, loathsome depositories 
of the mortal portions of those we have loved, but 
are decorated as gardens, and neatly kept as at- 
tractive retreats for contemplative minds. 
The Heliophila trifida is a pretty, half-hardy, an- 
nual, a native of the sandy plains near Cape Town, 
therefore in cultivation should have a light sandy 
soil. Vegetation of the seeds should be forwarded 
in the hot-bed, and the seedlings transferred to the 
borders in May. 
