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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.

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