DESCRIPTION:--Plant dwarf, succulent, spineless, branching from the base. _Branches_ ascending or somewhat spreading, 2·5 to 15 cm. long, 1 to 1·4 cm. thick, cylindric or slightly tapering upwards, tessellately tuberculate with hexagonal flattish tubercles 6 to 10 mm. in diam., having a slightly prominent whitish leaf-scar, glabrous, dull green. _Leaves_ sessile, soon deciduous, 4 to 6 mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. broad, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute, dark green, with a reddish minutely toothed margin. _Peduncles_ 3 to 4 at the ends of the branches, about 4 mm. long, bearing a pair of ovate or elliptic bracts and 1 involucre, glabrous. _Involucre_ about 1·3 to 1·8 cm. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 transversely oblong, toothed and ciliate, inflexed, purplish lobes. _Glands_ subcontiguous, about 5 mm. in diam. across the tips, very concave at the basal part, divided into 3 to 4 spreading finger-like corrugated white processes 2 to 3 mm. long. _Ovary_ pedicellate, scarcely exserted, with styles 7 mm. long, united for two-thirds of their length, with entire spreading tips. (National Herb., Pretoria, No. 2989.) PLATE 197.--Fig. 1, inflorescence; Fig. 2, gland with lobes. F.P.S.A., 1925. [Illustration: 198.] PLATE 198. VENIDIUM WYLEYI. _Little Namaqualand._ COMPOSITAE. Tribe ARCTOTIDEAE. VENIDIUM, _Less._; _Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant_, vol. ii. p. 459. * * * * * =Venidium Wyley=i, _Harv. Fl. Cap._ vol. iii. p. 463. * * * * * This Plate, and that on Plate 117, should be compared with _Arctotis Fosteri_ which we figured on Plate 3, when the difference between the genera _Venidium_ and _Arctotis_ will be seen. In the former genus the fruits are without a pappus or with a very rudimentary one, while in the latter genus a well-developed pappus is always present. The plant is commonly known as the “Namaqua Daisy,” and in its native home the flower-heads attain a very large size when the season is favourable, but may be quite small when no rain has fallen. _Venidium Wyleyi_ does quite well under cultivation, and is easily grown and forms a very effective border. We are indebted to Mr. L. R. Vogt of Waterkloof near Pretoria for the specimens, which were grown in his garden.