Biuy Hill, by whom our specimens were communicated 
in April last. 
A hardy, green-house shrub, a native of Peru. It 
differs from Ene^lia parvifolia, in having a hairy, not downy 
stem ; corymbose, not solitary, or nearly solitary, flowers ; 
and leaves with a rounded, not cuneate, base. 
An under-shrub, about 2 feet high, with a soft, downy; 
round stem, leafy at the end . Leaves broad , ovate, triangular, 
blunt, 3-nerved, hoary, running down into the petiole, cun- 
eate at the base, softly velvety on each side, on long villous 
stalks ; the upper entire, the lower convex somewhat 
toothed. Flowers terminal, twin, upon long stalks ; peduncles 
villous, with white, spreading, interwoven hairs ; above the 
middle bearing- a solitary, ovate, subsessile, woolly, recurved 
bract, somewhat folded together. Involucrum very villous, 
double, spreading, the outer 8-leaved, with ovate-lanceolate, 
blunt, twisted leaves ; the inner as many narrower, as- 
surgent, alternate leaves. Florets of the ray yellow, about 12, 
1-Kpped, ligulate, broad, cuneate, sub()licate, imbricated, 
altogether sterile, with the abortive obsolete rudiment of 
an ovary ; those of the disk small, hermaphrodite, funnel- 
shaped, round at the base, glandular-hairy, scattered over 
towards the end with a few spreading hairs, in the inside 
dark [)ur|)ie, M ra])pcd up in a cymbiform paleaof the same 
length as themselves and villous, very like the glume of a 
grass. Anthers dark purple, unarmed at base, at the end 
membranous and ovate. Ovary compressed, thin, obovate, 
truncate, hairy, edged on each side with transparent hairs. 
Pappus none. AS'(y/c filiform, smooth, purple at end. Stigmas 
linear, recurved, papulose, dark purple. Receptacle foveate 
and scaly, with the bo8ft>shaped palese above mentioned. 
