59 



STEVIA fascicularis. 



Close-headed Sterna. 



SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA MQJJALIS. 



STEVlA . Suprd vol.2, fol. 93 . 



J 



Jc 



et argut^ serratis vix pilosiusculis, superioribus sessilibus, ramis Innorescen- 

 tlas fastlgiatis aut subfastiglatis plerisque opposltis, capitulis fasciculatim 

 congestis, coroUis glabris, pappo florum cujusque capituli ssepiiks duorum 

 brevi paleaceo, aliorum triaristato. DeCand* Prodr, v. 5. 120. Lessing 

 in Linncea, \830.p. 140. 



CauHs puhescens. 



ill capitiilorum sphcpriciy al 

 aspero. Arista pale arum ducB. Achaenium denticulatum. 



Corolla tubo 



^. 



A native of Mexico, whence the seeds which produced 

 the plants now figured were imported by George Frederick 

 Dickson, Esq. F. H. S. and presented to the Horticultural 

 Society. 



It 



IS a 



pretty 



scented, greenhouse, herbaceous 



plant, flowering in the latter months of the year 



Nothing is more easy than 

 m any soil, and is readily multiplied by cutting 



It will grow 



In some respects 



at variance with the character 



given by Lessing to his S. fascicularis ; yet it seems hardly 



different 



F 



g 



presents a capitulum 



the flowering state. 



magnified; fig. 2. is a floret, with two setae amoDg the 

 pappus. 



