size position and inflection, first patent, then reflex; the 

 former greenish without, pale within; the latter uniformly 

 white. Crown variegated in circles of white and violet; 

 ower rays filiform, subulate, slender, in a double some- 

 what alternately unequal series, nearly even with the co- 

 rolla, patent; inner rays much shorter, erect, promiscu- 



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wded, capitate, forming a convex umbellike disk 



appeal 



not aware 



e y 



I) 



species ; inmost rays of the same shape 



taller than the inner, in one rank 



nclined to- 



ely upon the ope 



they 



d 



& 



m 



the 



tary 

 g 



fe 



G 



ptic, smoo 



umn, filaments, style, and stig 



a second anomaly 



1. Shaft of the 

 potted. Anthers 



> 



from 

 de V 



The drawing was made in the beffinnino* of 



plant which flowered in the collection of C 



B 



fter Mr. Edwards had 



The specimen was too far decayed 



the 



( 



f the fl 



the design, for us 



take 



d 



lied chiefly on 



© 



Auhlct, by whom the species was first recorded, found 



growing naturally in Cay 



but did not see the bio 



Introduced in 1779 by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of the 



Hammersmith nursery* 



a Outer double rank of rays, b Inner multiplied rays, c Inmost single 

 rank, stationed on the operculum and surrounding the shaft of the column* 



d The fleshy elevated pediment of the column, e The nectary. 







