som. We had never indeed observed a plant of it in any of 
our gardens before last summer, when several flowered in 
the greenhouse of the nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the 
King’s Road, having been raised from seed from the Cape 
of Good Hope. 
In the Hortus Kewensis the species is marked as a 
shrub; but we suspect it to be only suffrutescent and bien- 
nial; for none of the plants we had seen survived the season 
of their flowering. 
Suffrutescent? silkily furred, branching, 2-3 feet high; 
stem about as thick as a common pen; branches long, 
straggling, herbaceous. Leaves greyish. green, sessile, 
elongatedly oblong, subcuneate, with a short abrupt point; 
from an inch to an inch and a half in length or more, 
-partly alternate, partly opposite. Peduncles at the ends of 
the branches, solitary, oneflowered, straight, round, slight] 
villous. Calyx twice shorter than the ray or more, turbi- 
nate, herbaceous, imbricate; leaflets not very unequal, 
upright, linearly taper-pointed, convex at the back, point 
sphacelate and purplish. Ray of the flower pistilbearing, of - 
a lilac-blue, numerous, rolling itself up backwards in the 
evening, opening again in the morning; -lamina of the 
lorets obversely ligulate, 2-plaited, obsoletely indented at 
the end; tube twice shorter slender cylindrical villous: style 
deep yellow with two slightly protruded linear stigmas: 
germen oblong, tapered downwards, narrow, angular, 
white; pappus (seedcrown) chafty extremely short consist- 
ing of a few (4-5-6?) teethlike pales: florets of the disk 
stamen and pistilbearing, deep yellow, numerous, higher 
than the calyx, funnelform; tube twice shorter than the 
long widish cylindrical partly smooth partly villous faux; 
limb short reflex: style white, stigmas 2, protruded, linear, 
deep yellow, recurved, ending in a subsagittately pointed 
villous lobe: filaments flexuose: pollen orange-yellow. Ger. 
men cuneate, compressed, white; pappus white setaceous 
denticulate short (but longer than in the ray) scanty: recep- 
tacle chafty: palece equal to the florets of the disk, scariose, 
brown-pointed. 
