Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

plant, of which he enumerates five varieties, the last being
the subject of the present plate, distinguished by the white
under-surface of the leaf, and colours of the ligules. This
variety is omitted in Harvey and Sonder's " Flora Capensis,"
as is all notice of Jacquin's beautiful figure, although the
a rb or esc ens of Willdenow, another variety (var. scabra of
Berg, A. maculata, Jacq. 1. c. t. 379) which must not be
confounded with it, is there taken up.
I am indebted to Mr. Lynch, Curator of the Cambridge
University Botanical Gardens, for the specimen of this
beautiful and interesting plant, which he informs me was
formerly grown at Cambridge under the name of A. alba
(an unpublished one). Mr. Lynch adds that it has made
a most attractive bed during the past summer, its flowers
having been very profuse and charming in colour.
DESCK. An undershrub, one to three feet high, with
stout grooved hispid ascending branches. Leaves five to
eight inches long, pinnatifid ; radical petioled ; caulinc
sessile with broad auricled semi-amplexicaul bases, a very
stout grooved midrib and nerves beneath ; segments ovate
or ovate - oblong, acute, decurrent, lobulate and coarsely
toothed with waved edges, dark green above and hispid or
glabrate, tomentose or cottony beneath. Heads two and
a half inches in diameter, on stout peduncles clothed with
blackish hairs. Involucre broadly campanulate; outer
bracts ovate, subacute, herbaceous ; inner much longer,
panduriform, truncate, very coriaceous. Ligules about
twenty, quite horizontal, obtuse, one to one and a half
inches long, bright red outside, white within, but orange
towards the base. Dish-flowers brownish. Achenes silky at
the base ; inner scales of pappus cuneate-oblong, obtusely
lobed or entire at the tip.•J. D. IL
_ 1itf. 1, Ray-floret ; 2, disk-floret ; 3, ditto, laid open ; 4, ditto, unopened ;
o, inner pappus-scales; 6, stigma of ray-florets ; 7, stigma of disk-florets ; 8,reeep-
tacle ; 0, muer bract of ditto ; lU, llower-bud :• all hid Jigs. 8 to 10 enlarged.