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CINERARIA aurantiaca.
Orange-coloured Cineraria.
Naturai Order. C O M P O S I T A . Adansonfam. 2 . \69.
Subordo. V. JACOBEM. Kth. synops. 2. p. 440.
C IN E R A R IA . Involucrum profunde multipartitum, ecalycuia-
turn ■ laciniis »qualibus. Receptaculum nudum. Flosculi duci tubulosi,
hermaphroditi; radii ligulati fenunei. ^n i/te r« basi nud®
Pappus pilosus, se ssilis.-Frutices aut herb® alternifolice. Flores
terminales. Kth. synops. 2. p. 458.
** Herbacei, Pedunculis multifloris, Fohts indivms.
C. aurantiaca. caule simplici sublanato, foliis radicalibus e hpticis
repando-dentatis in petiolum decurrentibus, caulinis lanceolatis integerrimis,
corymbo paucifloro, involucri fohohs a ^ c e sphacelatis.
Cineraria aurantiaca. Willden. sp. pl. 3. p. 2081 Enum 2. p. 893.
Pers. syn. 2. p. 440. Botan. mayaz. 2262. Lodd. hot. cab. 32o.
L in k enum. 2. p. 334. Spreng. syst. 3. p . 549. Swt. hort. brit.
p . 232.
Stem, leaves, peduncles, and calgx, clothed with long
white wool, appearing as if laid on in flakes. Stem in our
plant about a foot in height, simple, erect, furrowed.
Leaves variable : lower ones elliptic or ovate, obtuse, decurrent
down the petiole, repandly toothed, the teeth very
small, dark-coloured, underneath strongly pennately nerved,
upper part of the nerves branched : upper leaves sessile,
lafoceolLe, more or less acute, entire, the margins slightly
reflexed, decurrent down the stems. Flowers terminating
the stem in a more or less flowered corymbus, which m our
specimen was 11 -flowered, at first of a bright orangy brown,
changing to a dark orange, afterwards becoming golden
yellow, orange-coloured underneath, very sweet-scented.
Peduncles from one to three inches long, cylindrical. I n volucrum
bell-shaped, one-leafed, divided into numerous
narrow linear laciniæ, nearly equal in size and length, their
points acute, spreading, purplish, giving the appearance
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