by cuttings. De Candolle notices its close affinity with G. Pseudo- 
china and G. hematophylla; and it is impossible not to see a 
great resemblance to the figures of G. Finlaysoniana and G. pur- 
purascens of Wallich, and Delessert’s Icones, v. 4. t. 55 and 56; 
all from Eastern India. | 
Descr. The plant is perennial, but the stem is altogether 
herbaceous, erect, two to three fect high, rather slender, shghtly | 
angular, dark-purple below, varied with green, greener above, 
branched ; branches long, slender, almost leafless, or with a leaf 
only at the setting on of the branch. Leaves submembranaceous, 
broad-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, slightly downy, penninerved 
petiolate ; petiole short, often stipulated on each side at the base; 
the margin pinnatifid and coarsely but sharply, and deeply but 
remotely dentate, two-lobed or auricled at the base, almost full- 
green above, richly purple beneath, in some of the lower leaves 
of our plants extending to the upper side also; leaves at the 
base of the branches small, sessile. Peduncles or leafless ex- 
tremities of the branches subcorymbose, bracteated ; dracteas 
remote, slender, subulate. Heads (capitula) of flowers solitary, 
terminal. nvolucres cylindrical, formed by a single series of 
erect, approximate, if not coadunate, narrow-linear, elongated 
scales, dark-purple at the somewhat spreading tips, at their 
base having a whorl of five to six spreading subulate Jrac- 
teoles. Florets rich orange, not very numerous, slightly spread- 
ing, uniform, tubular; below singularly inflated above the base. 
Limb of five erect teeth. Stigma exserted. Styles cleft into two, 
long, subulate branches. Ovary cylindrical, scabrous. Pappus 
of a single series of white, long, slender, setaceous hairs. 
Fig. 1. Involucre and bracteoles. 2. Floret. 3. Hair of the ) appus :—mag- 
nified. 4, Papille of the receptacle :—magnified. ; 
