Germ. lineare, pressione. 4-gonum, glabrum, margine villoso-fimbriato coro- 
matum. Palex opace, firme, persistentes, semiamplectentes, carinate, suprà 
villoso-scabre, flavescenies, abruptiùs cuspidate, acumine subulato recurvulo. 
Raised from seed from the Brazils, and, we believe, 
belonging to an unrecorded species. There are no samples 
of it in either the Banksian or Lambertian Herbarium. 'l'he 
plant flowered this summer iu the hothouse at the Nursery 
of Messrs. Colvill, in the King's Road, Chelsea. 
The genus is distinguished from Wepeuta principally by 
the barren ray of the flower and the absence of a seederown 
or pappus. We have ventured to write the name Gymno- 
LOMA instead of GvMNoLoMIA, as more analogous to the 
derivation. This is the first species known to have been 
introduced into our gardens ; the few tbat are recorded be- 
long to South America. 
A slender upright suffrutescent rough-furred perennial, 
in our sample 3 or 4 feet high, remarkable for the square- 
cornered branches mottled with dark red. Leaves mem- 
branous, apt to curl backwards and become deflex, ob- 
longly lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, shallowly serrate, 
largest more than 3 inches long by 14 broad. Flowers 
yellow, terminal, 1-2 but more generally 3, and tricho- 
iomously disposed on short rough peduncles. Calyx 
broadly and shallowly campanulate, in two rows of ovately 
lanceolate leaflets recurved at the top where they are of a 
deeper green. Palew permanent, yellow, and abruptly cus- 
pidate. Germen linear, 4-cornered, edged at the top with 
à short villouslike fringe by way of pappus. 
