To us the present plant appears a distinct species from 
aspera, of which however it has been always recorded as 
the variety @.. Without laying any stress on the larger 
and differently coloured flower, it may be distinguished by 
a foliage by no means various to the extent it is in that, 
where the central upper stem-leaves have commonly a broad 
disk with a shallowly indented margin, and are trans- 
formed in the same plant by intermediate changes into 
deeply pinnatifid ones with a very narrow disk, in which the 
villous pubescence intermixed with the araneous one that 
covers the upper surface, is far more abundant, longer, and 
harsher than in the present plant; but the more palpable 
mark is in the outermost scales or leaflets of the calyx, 
which in dureola are reflex, obversely or cuneately oblong, 
flat, with a broad shortly pointed termination, and a 
- slight araneous pubescence beneath ; but in aspera, Yevo- 
Jute, subulate or acicular, with a remarkably close shagg 
pubescence. 
This plant, although it has been long and very generally: 
known. in our gardens, probably ever since the time of 
Miller, has never been represented by any figure that we 
can trace, except the diminished engraving we have quoted 
from Boorhaave’s Index to the Leyden Garden. It becomes 
shrubby as well as aspera, acquiring: by age a hard-wooded 
close-fibred stem of nearly an inch and half in diameter. 
Notwithstanding this, to have either of the species in 
perfection, they should be frequently renewed by cuttings, 
which strike easily if planted in.a border of light earth 
during any of the summer'months. These, when properly 
rooted, may be potted in the autumn, in order to be shel- 
tered for the winter in the greenhouse or garden-frame. In ~ 
summer they can scarcely be supplied with too much water, 
if properly drained. Old plants are apt to become mouldy, 
and should be frequently cleared of their decayed leaves. 
Both species are very desirable acquisitions for the green- 
house, since, besides the beauty of the bloom, easy culture 
and propagation, they afford a’succession of flowers nearly 
the year round. Z 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Colville, 
in the King’s Road, Chelsea. 
n s ee ene 
@ A vertical section of the calyx and receptacle. 4 A floret of the ray, 
with the germen and double pappus. cA floret of the disk, showing @ 
barren stigma covered with pollen, as protruded from within the tube of the 
anther to above its floret, in order for dispersing the pollen among the fer- 
tile stigmas ; after which it reverts to its former Position within the anther. 
