Now first introduced by Messrs. Colvill, of the Chelsea 
Nursery, with whom it flowered in the greenhouse this 
summer. 
* The species appears to be annual, but on this head 
* we have no information. We are only informed of its 
“ growing near Port Jackson on a sandy soil, and blossom- 
“ ing in October." 
“The root is branching and woody. Stem solitary, 
* about two feet high, erect, leafy, round, woolly, but 
“ little branched except at the upper part, where the flower- 
“ stalks, more or less numerous, grow in a corymbose form. 
** Leaves alternate, stalked, 3-cleft, lobed and pinnatifid ; 
“ their segments spreading, linear, entire, flat, a little di- 
“ lated upwards, and bluntish ; clothed with dense wool, 
“ whiter beneath. Stipulas none. Flowers terminal, large 
* and showy, all over white with a green or rufous tinge. 
“ Involucrum coloured, spreading, much longer than the 
“ umbel, consisting of 8 or 10 lanceolate, acute, entire 
* leaves, peculiarly soft and pliable, clothed on both sides 
** with a dense velvetlike pubescence. Flowers very nume- 
* rous, forming a compact, hemispherical, hairy umbel, 
* those of the circumference abortive, having no germen. 
* Calyx a little elevated, ‘of 5 large, equal, ovate (linear- 
* oblong), concave, whitish (green) leaves, hairy exter- 
“ nally, and having the aspect of petals. Of real petals 
* we have found none. Stamens in all the flowers, 5 in 
* number, equal, awlshaped, white, with yellow roundish 
* anthers projecting a little beyond the calyx. Styles 
“ (stigmas) 2, capillary, longer than the stamens. Stig- 
“ mas simple. Germen obovate, compressed, densely cloth- 
** ed with long white silky hairs. The wool and hairs under 
* the microscope appear to be compound, and more or less 
“ whorled. Ripe seeds we have not seen. No aromatic or 
rod flavour is perceptible in any part." Smith exot. 
t. 2. 37. 
* The genus bears the most striking analogy to the 
„European AsTRANTIA, from which it differs in its woolly, 
* not smooth, involucrum, but more essentially in having 
* no petals, and in its hairy, not muricated, fruit." Smith 
in Reess cyclop. sub ERIOCALIÁ. 
