REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. A scale of the empalement.
2.One of the hermaphrodite florets magnified.
3.The chives and pointal.
4. The receptacle
The plant here delineated is by no means a conspicuous one; nevertheless, as it is a genuine member of a favourite genus, and at the same time a new species, and almost the last of its fine family we shall be able to present to our readers, it cannot fail to be acceptable to them.
The present species is a weak shrubby plant, flowers freely, and succeeds with the treatment of the other eternal flowers, and is propagated in the same manner: and was lately raised from Cape seeds at our never-failing source of rare plants, the choice collection of G. Hibbert, esq. where the figure here given was made in May last.
It is very closely allied to X. argenteum of our 327th plate, which is the X. paniculatum of Thunberg and the younger Linnæus.[Pg 55]
PLATE CCCLXXXVIII.
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM INCLAUDENS.
Unclosing-flowered Fig-Marygold.