at present unable to say. We regret however to be con- 
strained to publish it under a new generic definition, as 
well on aceount of our very imperfect knowledge of the 
order to which it belongs, as because our means of deter- 
mining have been confined to an only and not very perfect 
flower. 
The semiflorets of the ray are bilabiate, having a small 
interior lip facing the large outer one which forms the ray 
of the flower; and of course the plant belongs to the lately 
established tribe of “ Composite labiatiflore." Concerning 
its more special affinities we have nothing to offer. 
Drawn at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, in thé King’s 
Road, Chelsea. 
Mr. Brown has native samples collected by Dr. Mackrel 
und Mr. Bowie. 
A weak leafy stragglingly branched shrub about three 
feet high. Leaves stiff, thickish, numerous, alternate, ad- 
hering to the branch (which they completely invest by their 
inner surface) for about half their length, their sides remain- 
ing free and reflex to the base, linear, taper-pointed, dark 
green above and rough along the reflex circumference, 
cottony and milk white underneath. Flowers terminal, 
solitary, rather more than an inch in diameter; ray reddish 
purple. Leaflets of the calyx imbricate, numerous, narrow, 
inner ones surmounted by a long recurved sphacelate 
brownish awn. Pappus (seedcrown) feathered. Receptacle 
alveolate. 
Any one that would reduce the scattered notices by. 
M. Cassini concerning Composite into a general view would 
render a great service to Botany. At. present we own we 
often do not know where to find them. 
