Tar. 5443. 



WAITZIA CORYMBOSA. 

 Corymbose Waitzia. 



Nat. Ord. Composite. — Svngenesia Super ii.la. 

 Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 5342.) 



WAITZIA corymbosa; caule erecto simplici basi pauce raraoso apice corvmboso 

 laxe lanato, foliis lineari-lanceolatis scabriusculis, capitulis campanulato-tur- 

 binatis, involucri squamis ovatis acutis, exterioribus bvalinis vel roseis, inte- 

 rioribus niveis, stipitibus omnium dorso fjlanduliferis, intermediarum tere- 

 tibus apice lanatis, intimarum planis, acbaeniis glabris, summo apice sub- 

 papillosis in rostrum ipsia sesqui- vel duplo longius attenuatis, pappo 

 niveo. 



Waitzia corymbosa. JFendl. in Plant. Preissiana, v. I. p. 450. 



Leptorhynchtts suaveolens. Benth. in Endl. Emm. PI. Ilugel. p. 64. n. 208. 

 Be Cand. Prodr. v. 6. p. 160. 



Morna nivea. Lindl. Bot. Reg. v. 24. t. 9. 



A lovely herbaceous and probably annual plant, presenting 

 a great variety of colouring of flowers in the same species. Preisa 

 enumerates two varieties, chiefly depending on colour. Our spe- 

 cimens here figured were raised by Mr. Thomson, of Ipswich, 

 in 1863, from seeds received from the Swan River settlement, 

 West Australia, and produced in the open ground plants of three 

 different colours: 1. White, as represented by Dr. Lindley, 

 under the name of Morna nivea (in our specimens, slightly 

 tinged with pink) ; 2. Deep rose-colour (the scales of the invo- 

 lucre indeed white and satiny within) ; 3. Entirely yellow :— in 

 all cases the disk is deep-yellow. We think that the species 

 may prove a valuable bedding-out plant. 



We have already figured Waitzia Steetziana, at Tab. 5342 of 

 this work, — a species well distinguished, besides the characters 

 above given, by its globose heads of flowers, of which the scales 



MAY 1st, 1864. 



