with the same name, as was supposed by Jacquin and, Will- 
denow. Arcroris crithmoides of Bergius is SpHENOGYNE 
crithmifolia of Mr. Brown in the Hortus Kewensis, and the 
same with Arcrotis paleacea of Linnzeus as well as ArcToTIS 
Feeniculacea of Jacquin. It is this inadvertence in Willde- 
now that has occasioned the repetition of paleacea and pili- 
Jfera, in his Species Plantarum, under the titles of crith- 
moides and foeniculacea. 
Pilifera in general appearance comes so near to ARrcTo- 
_T1s paradoxa (Ursinta paradoxa of Geertner) that the two 
are not easily distinguishable without an attentive inspec- 
tion of the flower. In paradoxa the pappus is much longer 
than the germen, and nearly as long as the florets, and the 
paleze of the receptacle are higher than the disk, the florets 
of which they envelop all the way round; in pilifera the 
pappus is shorter than the germen and several times shorter 
than the floret, and the palez of the receptacle lower than 
the disk, the florets of which they envelop only half way 
round ; the anthers are black in the first, yellow in the se- 
cond; the segments of the florets of the disk have a dark- 
eee callus at their back in paradoxa, but not in pi- 
ifera. 
Is it likely that the two should be the counterparts of a 
dioicous species ° 
We suspect the inner series of the double pappus at- . 
tributed by Geertner to his Urstnia paradoxa to be a mere 
remnant of the floret itself, and that the plant is a very. 
good SpHEnoayne. Neither Linnzus nor Solander has 
noticed this second pappus, though the latter has described 
very minutely this member of the seed in a manuscript 
note concerning paradoxa in the Banksian Library. 
The drawing was taken in the greenhouse of the nursery 
belonging to Messrs. Colvill in the King’s Road, where the 
plant had been raised from seed from the Cape of Good 
Hope, and was in flower during last December. We are 
not aware that it has been introduced into this country be- 
fore. It is a branching upright thickly-leaved bush about 
two feet high. The ray of the corolla rolls itself close up 
. baekwards in the evening, and spreads again in the morn- 
ing, for several days in succession. ‘The flower when 
bruised smells like Chamomile. 
Spuenocyne is a wholly South African group, partly 
herbaceous, but chiefly shrubby. ) 
