A suffrutescent species, much cultivated in the green. 
houses about London, on account of its early flowering, 
easy culture and propagation. A narrow foliage clothes 
the branches to the top, in the manner of that of the com. 
mon Southernwood, which it resembles in form; each 
leaf is from an inch to an inch and half long, fleshy, un. 
equally linear-pinnate; petiole furrowed above and beneath ; 
leaflets decurrent, 11-13, filiform, pointed, furrowed above 
only, generally opposite or nearly so; sometimes alternate, 
lowermost very small, three uppermost placed tridentways, 
Stem round, proliferous; branches upright, producing a 
“solitary smooth round one-flowered bracteless peduncle 
from an apex tufted with thick white wool, forming 
the centre of the terminal leaves. Flowers of a uniform 
pale golden yellow, from an inch and half to two over, 
Receptacle alveolate or honeycombed, edge of the cells 
membranous, with fine bristle-like teeth, gradually higher 
as the depth of the cells diminishes towards the centre.. 
In bloom from January to March. Native of the Cape 
of Good Hope. Cultivated at Hampton Court Gardens in 
1092. 
We are acquainted with two varieties: the one witha 
broader flatter foliage we take to be Commelin’s plant. 
The present is that of Volckamer, whose figure of it, tho’ 
coarse, is very characteristic. Samples of both are pre. 
served in the Banksian Herbarium. 
The drawing was. made at Messrs. Colville’s nursery, 
King’s Road, Chelsea. 
a Calyx, dissected vertically, showing the bristly-alveolated receptacle, 
deprived of the florets. A floret of the disk and germen. c A floret of 
the ray and germen. 
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