Plate 19. 
SPLENDENT GAZANIA. 
Gazanict splendens. 
This fine summer-flowering plant, which has only lately at 
tracted attention at the metropolitan exhibitions, appears to 
have been grown for some time past in one or two localities in 
the country; but as it has not been at all generally known, it 
may for practical purposes be regarded as a novelty. When ex¬ 
hibited in July, 1859, by the Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, 
of St. John’s Wood, it received a certificate of commendation 
from the Floral Committee of the Horticultural Society, as a 
distinct and showy bedding plant, likely to be useful in flower- 
gardens on account of its rich orange-yellow flowers. Our figure 
will, we think, still further recommend it to the notice of those 
who have not yet added it to their collections. 
Gazania splendens is a dwarf, decumbent, herbaceous plant, 
with the general habit and aspect of G . uniflora , being, how¬ 
ever, more compact in growth. It will be extremely useful, in 
suitable seasons, for small beds in flower-gardens, where it will 
prove much more showy and attractive than the species just 
mentioned. Its stems, which spread from the base, are of a 
reddish tinge, branched, prostrate, forming a spreading tuft; 
Plate 19.— Gazaxia splexdexs : stems terete, branched, smooth, leafy, 
prostrate; leaves narrow-oblong-spathulate, tapering below into a short fleshy 
petiole, glossy-green above, white and cottony with a close felt of downy 
hairs and having a smooth fleshy midrib beneath, occasionally obscurely lobed; 
involucral scales in about four series, those of the two outer series linear, 
blunt, recurved, glossy above white beneath as in the leaves, the inner ones 
erect, triangular-ovate, acute, with membranaceous edges; flower-heads large; 
ray-florets broad, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, overlapping, orange-yellow, spotted at 
the base ; disc-florets short, orange-coloured, with exserted styles. 
Gazania splendens of gardens, Moore,in Illustrated Bouquet, t. 29, fig. 1. 
