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TAB. 6528.<br />
ARCTOTIS áSPERA, var. arborescens.<br />
Native of South Africa.<br />
Nat. Ord. CoMPOSiTiE.•Tribe ARCTOTIDEíE.<br />
(¡onus AECTOTIS, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. vol. ii. p. 458.)<br />
AKCTOTIS (Euarctotis) áspera ; suíFruticosa, ramosa, liispido-pilosa, rainis validia<br />
sulcatis aseendentibus, lbli s oblongis lineari-oblongisvepmnatifidis inferioribua<br />
petiolatis superioribus sessilibus auriculato-semi-amplexicaulibus, costa crassa,<br />
segmentis lato-ovatis oblongisve basi lata decurrentibus grosse irregulariter<br />
acute dentatis undulatisque supra bispidis glabratisve subtus plus ruinusve<br />
cano-tomentosis, capitulis maquis, involucri late bemispberici squamis exteri-<br />
oribus ovatis berbaeeis bispidis, intimis panduratis truncatis coriaceis, Hgulis<br />
pollicaribus obtusis, aebeniis basi serieeis, pappi squamis interioribus oblongia<br />
euneatisve apice rotundatis v. 2-3-fidis.<br />
A. áspera, Linn. Sp. PI. 13o7 ; DC. Prodr. vol. vi. p. 488 ; Karo, et So/id. Fl.<br />
Cup. vol. iii. p. 453.<br />
Var. AKBOBESCENS, DC. I. c. 488; raniis foliisque subtus tomentosis, pedunculis<br />
nigro-pilosis, ligulis extus roséis intus »¡veis basi aurantiaeis.•A. arborescens<br />
Jacq. Mort. Schanb. vol. ii. tab. 171.<br />
The genus Arctotis is little known to horticulturists,<br />
although one species, the present, of the thirty described,<br />
has long been known in botanic gardens, and no less thnn<br />
thirteen are figured in Jacquin's " Hortus Schoenbrunensis,"<br />
from specimens that flowered in the Imperial Botanic<br />
Garden of Vienna during the last century. Sixteen (ex-<br />
elusive of one referred to Venidium) are enumerated in<br />
the " Hortus Kewensis" as being in cultivation in 1813,<br />
and there are five others enumerated as species in that<br />
work which are now regarded as varieties. The present is<br />
one of the most beautiful of the genus ; it was cultivated<br />
in England before 1710, and in Holland much earlier, for it is<br />
described in Johan Commelyn's " Hortus Medicus Amstelo-<br />
damensis," published in 1697, as " Anemolospermos<br />
Africana, foliis Cardui Benedict!, florum radiis intua sul-<br />
phureis."<br />
According to De Candolle A. áspera is a very variable<br />
DKCEMBEK 1ST. 1880.