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13. CERADIA furcata. 
In the Garden of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire at 
Chatsworth there is, or was a few months since, a very 
singular plant having the appearance of a shrub of coral, 
leafless, spreading its short leather-coated branches upwards 
like a candelabra, and decorated with broad vivid patches of 
the scarlet lichen called Dufourea flammea. It had been 
received from the west coast of Africa, and indicated a dry 
and sterile climate. | 
Early in December last I received from Dr. Maclagan of 
Edinburgh a dead branch of the same plant, with its skin 
overrun with a small crustaceous lichen ; it had been brought 
from Ichaboe by the wife of a ship’s Captain, who went to the 
island (in search, I presume, of guano) and who reported 
that it yielded Olibanum, a fragrant gum-resin burned as 
frankincense. The branches in fact had transparent tears 
of a slightly bitter tender gum-resin sticking to their wounds, 
but the resin when burned was totally destitute of fragrance, 
and evidently had nothing to do with any of the drugs to 
which the name of Olibanum has been applied. 
The total absence of foliage, and the singular aspect of 
the branches, rendered it impossible even to guess what 
manner of plant this curious production might be. But the 
other day it appeared at a meeting of the Horticultural 
Society in leaf and flower, from Messrs. Rollissons, the 
eminent nurserymen of Tooting. It then proved to be a 
plant of the Composite order, and nearly related to those 
fleshy-stemmed shrubs from the Cape of Good Hope, which 
were formerly called Cacalias, but are now referred to the 
genus Kleinia. At the summit of the rugged branches grows 
a cluster of spathulate bright green veinless somewhat suc- 
culent leaves, and from their axils a few solitary flower-heads 
of a pale yellow colour, placed on stalks scarcely so long as 
the leaves. 
It is not, however, a Kleinia, nor does it belong to any 
genus hitherto defined; but is a member of the division 
called by DeCandolle Erecuruirex. It differs from 
Faujasia in the want of a calyculus, and in its abundant 
pappus; from Æriothrix in its involucre not being leafy ; 
