ritier, the founder of the genus, from a native sample in the 
Banksian Herbarium. We have not retained the synonym 
quoted by Willdenow, from Thunberg’s Prodromus, the 
leaves in that being described as bare or smooth, while in 
this they are furnished with both a downy and a strigilose 
pubescence. ; 
Introduced by Messrs. Colvill, of the King’s Road, 
Chelsea, with whom it flowered last September in the 
greenhouse, having been grown from seed from the Cape 
of Good: Hope. 
The genus includes 19 published species, of which only 
one besides the present is noticed as being in our gardens; 
and that belongs to a different section. They are all from 
South Africa. 
A small weak, slender, branching shrub; branches leafy 
all the way, and tomentosely grey in the young wood. 
Leaves acerose, rigid, sessile, ascending, scattered, rather 
wide-set, linearly subulate, about 4 of an inch long, entire, 
on the outside convex fluted slightly tomentose roughened 
by short hard inclined bristles and green, on the inside: 
coneaye and tomentosely whitened, point spinous brown. 
Flowers yellow, terminal, sessile, solitary, enveloped below 
by the leaves of the branches, more than an inch in dia- 
meter. Calyx oblong, turbinate or narrowing downwards, 
light-yellowish brown, much higher than the disk of the 
flower, closely imbricated below and chequered by small 
downy white compartments, radiately extended above and — 
quite smooth: leaflets very unequal, inner ones spatulately 
ligulate with a lanceolate lamina (blade) rather broader than 
the unguis (claw). Radius of the corolla numerous, florets 
pistilbearing, closish,; lamina obyersely ligulate unindented 
2-plaited, reddish down the middle of the back, convolutely 
folded when the ray converges at sunset. 
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