which are sometimes elongated into subulate processes as 
long as the involucrum, and by its whole habit. It is 
equally distinguishable from Adenostyles and Emilia. 
We do not, however, wish to interfere with the arrange- 
ment of the New Holland Compositae, by Mr. Brown, the 
result of whose vl^Uftble labours tipoii tke subject will, we 
trust, be soon before the public. 
Raised from New Holland seeds presented to Mr. 
Colvill by Edward Barnard, Esq. It is a hardy green- 
house plant, requiring no particular treatment, ana flower- 
ing in August. 
A shrub, with thick, ash-coloured, downy branches, 
scarred with the remains of the fallen leaves. Leaves 
scattered, clustered towards the end of the branches, 
stalked, lanceolate, convex, toothed at the edge, on the 
upper side rugose, green and smooth, on the under side 
hoary and netted. Heads sessile, axillary, clustered, not 
much longer than the leafstalk*, with a few linear, blunt, 
downy bracteoB between. Involucrum campanulate, many- 
leaved, imbricated, with 2-3 subulate bracteae at the base ; 
Uqfkts equal, distinct, scarious at the edge, woolly at the 
back and ends. Flosculi yellow, all hermaphrodite, ftmnel- 
shaped, erect, with a 5-lobed spreading limb, a little 
shorter than the tube. Anthers without awns at the base, 
with smooth filaments. Ovaria round, smooth, angular by 
mutual compression, equal at base, a little dilated at end. 
Pappus long, sessile, hairy at end, rough at base, inserted 
in a single row. Style smooth; bulbous at base, with a 
small cpigynous disk. Stigma 2-lobed, with linear re- 
curved lobes, which are blunt, furrowed down the middle, 
slightly papillose at the back, hispid towards the ends. 
Receptacle {di\ose,\v\i\\ little unequal subulate paleae, some^ 
times lengthened into a filiform palea as long as the 
involucrum. 
J. L. 
