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Arctotis (This genus embraces thirty)

This genus embraces thirty species, natives of South Africa, with one Abyssinian. Leaves radical or alternate. To the species described on p. 108, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

A. Leichtliniana (Leichtlin's). fl.-heads 2 1/2in. in diameter; ray florets golden-yellow, with a dark basal mark, below flaked with red, 11/4in. long. Summer. l. 2in. to 8in. long, obovate or oblanceolate, petiolate, pinnatifid and toothed; lobes oblong, slightly lobulate. 1885.

A. revoluta (revolute). fl.-heads orange-yellow, not so brilliant as those of A. grandiflora, 2 1/2in. across; outer involucral scales much narrower than in A. grandiflora, and having tomentose tips. Cape of Good Hope, 1885. (B. M. 6835, lower figure.)