From the garden of the Royal Botanic Society in the 

 Regent's Park, whence it was obligingly sent by Mr. J. 

 D. Sowerbv. It is unquestionably the Leucheria run- 

 cinata of Dr. Gillies, whose specific name we, consequently, 

 retain, but not satisfied, though we follow the lamented 

 De Candolle in placing it in ChabrjEA, that the present 

 plant is really distinct from Leucheria, or even from our 

 L. senecioides C'Trixis senecioides, Exot. Flora, tab. 1 01 J. 

 We observe, indeed, no serrated membranaceous bracteoles 

 or inner scales of the involucres, such as are figured in the 

 Exotic Flora; but in Delessert's Icones, tab. 90, at f. 1, is 

 given a scale of this kind, as " squama receptaculi Moris 

 involvens." We shall hope to have an opportunity of 

 determining this point by a further examination of living 

 plants of L. senecioides. Both are natives of Chili, the 

 present one apparently more particularly of the Andes. 

 The seeds were sent over by Mr. Bridges, and the plant, 

 we believe, in several collections. The fiowers are fragrant. 



Descr. Stems herbaceous, weak, a foot to a foot and 

 a half high, branched from the root and again above. 

 Leaves oblong, sessile, subarnplexicaul, more or less deeply 

 pinnatifid, the segments rather distant, ovate or oblong, 

 lobed, or again subpinnatifid, the segments acute. Flower- 

 ing branches subpaniculate, at the setting on of the branches 

 leafy, leaves smaller than the inferior ones, more amplexi- 

 caul, with more acuminated lobes, almost pungent at the 

 tips. Flowers moderately large, white, frequently changing 

 to rose-colour. Involucre tumid, hemispherical, of several 

 nearly equal, lanceolate, appressed, slightly imbricated 

 scales. Receptacle punctated. Corolla in two spreading 

 unequal lips, the smaller one ligulate, revolute ; the tube 

 hairy externally. Ovary oblong-obovate, silky. Pappus 

 of several white, feathery setae. 



Fig. 1. Receptacle of the Flowers. 2. Floret. 3. Seta of the Pappus :— 

 magnified. 



