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OTir plant sufficiently difters from it to justify its being established 

 as a distinct and new species. Its leaves are much smaller, only 

 2-3 lines long, 1-j^ line broad, everywhere opposite (not alter- 

 nating, as the figure shows them, especially on the upper part of 

 the branches), more crowded and adpressed, less flat, and there is 

 no trace of a serrulate margin ; the inner bracts of the involucre 

 are tapering towards their end, not rounded or emarginate ; and 

 the lobes of the calyx, which in the figure appear quite short and 

 semicircular, are narrower and more than twice as long. More- 

 over, Drummond's plant (if we are coiTcct in referring his notice 

 in Hook. Journ. 1853, p. 118, to no. 34 of the collection) seems to 

 differ also in habit, being only about 1 foot high, with numerous 

 short, erect, flowerless shoots, densely crowded in the centre, 

 around Avhich the flowering branches are prostrate and bearing 

 erect flower-heads, whereas the plant figured t. 4860 appears to be 

 a taller shrub and shows hmiging capitula, a difference hardly 

 attributable to the mere effect of cultivation. Turczaninow's 

 description of his O. macrostegia differs from our plant partly in 

 the same points as that of the Bot. Mag. t. 4860, and moreover 

 I in having the tube of the calyx carved with ten ribs at tlie loAver 



and twenty at the upper part, a character in whieli it equally dis- 

 agrees with the latter, which therefore I suspect to be a distinct 

 species, for which I would propose tfie name of O. Hookeria?ia. 

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wliicli however is easily distinguished by subtriquetrous leaves 

 ciliated bracts, &c. 



2. G. {Lii'ohicratoi) helicheysoides, noh., glabcrriraa, foliis oppositis 

 patulis acorosis cariiiato-triquctris apicetrimcato-bicuspidiilatis marginibus 

 (sub Icntc) ciliolalo-scrrulatis, capitulis jiutantibus 4-floris, involucro 

 ovato-obloiigo subclauso, bracteis intorioribu3 saiiguinois v. roseis ovato- 

 oblongis baud ciliatis apice virescenti suboarmato obtu?iusculo acuiniiiati^ 

 oxterioribu8 brevioribus scnnhcrbacei^ bractcoHs florcs :>essiles t<uba;quan- 

 tibus, calvcc campanulato la-vissin.o, lobis tubo din.idio birvioribus rotuii- 

 datis intogerrhnis, staminodiis subulatis glanduloso-subcapitatis stamina 



a^quantibus, st^lo apice barbcllato. 

 Hab. cum pra?eedeute. Drummond, coll. 6. n. 35 ! 



Probably the plant alluded to by Drummond in the ' Journal 

 of Botany,' 1853, p. 118, iu these words :— "Another pretty 

 species of this genus grows about a foot high, with heath-like 

 leaves ; the drooping heads of the flowers are surrounded by gla- 

 brous bracts of a deep rose-colour." It is very near O. speciosa 

 and cederioides, but differs from the former in the triquetrous, 



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