Proper of the hermaphrodites funnel-shaped; border five-cleft, ends reflexed, equal.
Of the Females tongue-shaped, lance-shaped, slightly three-toothed; tube very short.
Chives of the Hermaphrodites; five threads hair-like, very short. Tip cylindric five-toothed, the length of the floret.
Pointal of the Hermaphrodites; seed-bud scarce visible. Shaft cylindric, a little longer than the blossom. Summit simple.
Of the Females seed-bud egg-shaped four-cornered, hairy, crowned by its proper cup. Shaft thread-shaped. Summits two, oblong-egg-shaped, thickish, upright.
Seed-vessel none. Empalement unchanged. Seeds in the Hermaphrodites none.
In the Females solitary roundish, hairy. Feather, proper cup five leaved; leaflets, egg-shaped, spreading, crowned by the proper cup with the leaflets placed in a round.
Receptacle hairy or chaffy, flattish.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Arctotis flosculis radiantibus sterilibus; paleis disco longioribus coloratis; foliis bipinnatis, linearibus.