JACOBÆA africana frutescens, foliis absinthii umbelliferi incanis. _Comm. hort. 2. p. 137. t. 69._
The _Othonna pectinata_ is a native of Africa, a long-established and common plant in greenhouses, having been cultivated by Mr. Miller, in 1731; it recommends itself chiefly on account of its foliage, which forms a pleasing contrast to the darker greens of other plants.
It flowers in May and June, is moderately hardy, and readily increased by cuttings.
In many collections we meet with old plants of it three or four feet high; formerly, when greenhouse plants were few in numbers and the houses large, it might be proper to keep such; but now there is not that necessity, especially since the vast accession of plants from the Cape and New-Holland, made within these few years.
Hermannia Althæifolia. Marsh-Mallow-Leaved Hermannia.
Pentagyna. _Caps._ 5-locularis. _Petala_ basi semitubulata, obliqua.
HERMANNIA _althæifolia_ foliis ovatis crenatis plicatis tomentosis, calycibus florentibus campanulatis angulatis, stipulis oblongis foliaceis. _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 411._
HERMANNIA _althæifolia_ foliis ovatis plicatis crenatis tomentosis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 610._
HERMANNIA capensis althææ folio. _Pet. Gaz. 53. t. 34. f. 2._
KETMIA africana frutescens foliis mollibus et incanis. _Comm. hort. 2. p. 151. t. 79._
The _Hermannia althæifolia_, a native of the Cape, is a plant of much larger growth than the _lavendulifolia_, rising to the height, if suffered to do so, of three, four, or more feet; its blossoms are proportionably large, and of a deep yellow colour, inclined to orange.
It is a plant of free growth, much disposed to produce flowers during most of the summer months; hence it is kept very generally in collections of greenhouse plants: is propagated readily by cuttings.
Was cultivated by Mr. Miller, in 1728. _Ait. Kew._
Our readers will see, that the specific description of Linnæus has been altered in the _Hortus Kewensis_, and that it now comprizes all the striking features of the plant.
_Cor._ infundibuliformis subæqualis curva. _Calycis_ unico dente truncato. _Semina_ 2 s. 4 nuda (_Stam._ 2 s. 4.)
VERBENA _Aubletia_ tetrandra, spicis laxis solitariis, foliis trifidis incisis. _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 33._