REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The whole flower, shewn from the front with the sheath opened, to expose the parts of fructification. This pretty plant is a native of the East Indies, in that country from which it derives its specific title. It has much affinity with many others of the Genus, which at first sight appear rather as varieties, than meriting to be treated as species; but, in this instance, we submit our judgment to that of Dr. Roxburg, by whom it has been introduced to us under the name it here bears, in the year 1802. Our figure was taken, in the month of October 1803, from a plant in the collection of J. Vere, Esq. Kensington Gore. The flower is scentless. [Illustration] PLATE CCCLVII. ARCTOTIS PARADOXA. _Chamomile-leaved Arctotis._ CLASS XIX. ORDER IV. _SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA NECESSARIA._ Tips united. Necessary Pointals. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX _communis_ subrotundus, imbricatus; squamis inferioribus laxioribus, subulatis; mediis ovatis; intimis oblongis; apice scarioso, rotundato, concavo. COROLLA _composita_ radiata; corollulæ hermaphroditæ plurimæ in disco. Femininæ ligulatæ, fere viginti, disci diametro longiores. _Propria_ hermaphroditis infundibuliformis; limbo quinquefido, apicibus reflexis, æqualibus. _Femineis_ ligulata, lanceolata, tenuissime tridentata, tubo brevissimo. STAMINA hermaphroditis; filamenta quinque, capillaria, brevissima. Anthera cylindracea, quinquedentata, longitudine corollulæ. PISTILLUM _Hermaphroditis_; germen vix manifestum. Stylus cylindraceus, corolla paulo longior. Stigma simplex. _Femineis_ germen ovato-tetragonum, villosum, coronatum calyculo proprio. Stylus filiformis. Stigmata duo, ovata-oblonga, crassiuscula, erecta. PERICARPIUM nullum. Calyx immutatus. Semina _Hermaphroditis_ nulla. _Femineis_ solitaria, subrotunda, villosa. _Pappus_ perianthium proprium pentaphyllum; foliolis ovatis, patentibus, coronatus perianthii proprii foliolis ovatis in orbem positis. RECEPTACULUM pilosum seu paleaceum, planiusculum. EMPALEMENT _common_ roundish, tiled; lower scales more loose, awl shaped; middle ones egg-shaped; innermost oblong; harsh, rounded, concave at the point. BLOSSOM _compound_ raied; hermaphrodite florets numerous in the center. Of the Females tongue-shaped, nearly twenty, longer than the diameter of the center. _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.