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120. PODOLEPIS contJrta. 



cantor ta ; glabnuscula, erecta, foliis oblongis carnosis sessilibus obsolete tri- 

 plinerviis, pedunculis foliis longioribus parce squamatis monocephalis, capi- 

 tulis primiiin pendulis sub anthesi erectis, involucri folioHs cordatis acumi- 

 natis glabris planis exterioribus sessilibus intermediis stipitatis interioribus 

 lineari-lanceolatis, ligulis trifidis, radio dextrorsum contorto. 



r 



A native of Van Diemen*s Land, whence seeds of it were 



the Horticultural Society by Mr. J. Bunce. It is a 



pretty perennial, with dark 



stem from 

 flower heads. Th 



gr 



fleshy leaves, a fl 



inches high, and solitary gold 



: latter are the size and form of the com 



mon Amherhoa moschata, or Yellow Sultan, and are remark- 

 able for the florets of the ray having all a distinct twist to the 

 left, so as to give the flower-head the appearance of 



called a Catharine-wheel 



hardy 



The species will perhaps be 



least it will only require moderate protect 



in 



winter. It is very different from the old Podolep 

 figured in the Botanical Magazine 



der the name 



of Scalia j aceoides , in its leaves not being sagittate, and 



much dwarfer hab 



As however. M. DeCandolle takes 



notice of the remarkable sagittate leaves of P 



it must be doubted whether he had that plant, or the present 



one, before him, when he framed his definition for the 

 Prodromus. 



121. BfiRBERIS tenuifolia. 



tenuifolia; foliis pii 

 planis integerrimis. 



ovato-oblonorls acutis tenuibus 



Although I have not seen any flowers of this plant, it 



publish 

 c . » , by Mr. Hartweg to the Horticulti 



feociety from the neighbourhood of Vera Cruz, where 



is so well marked 

 Its seeds were sent 



species, that I 



it. 



found growing at a place called Zaquapam, near the rancho 

 w ir* >avater, in company with a Helonias resembling 

 Ji. officinalis. It IS an evergreen bush, with thin, smooth, 

 rather glaucous, pinnated leaves, entirely free from all spi- 

 nosity. As an addition to the beautiful section of ash- 

 leaved Berberries it must be considered 



plant, but 



a 



very 



B . fasdcularis . if so much 



be expected to prove more hardy 



