faggot of wood which a Chinaman was carrying home! 
Such facts as these, coupled with Capt. Walker's discovery of 
this Aznsiiea, render it more than probable that not a few 
novelties still lurk in this little British possession. 
Ainsliea Walkeri was communicated by Mrs. Walker, of 
Chase Cottage, Enfield, with whom it flowered for the first 
time in December last, the plant being then three years old. 
Descr. A rigid, erect herb, a foot high, glabrous below, 
slightly pubescent. in the inflorescence. Stem cylindric, 
green, leafy below, above terminating in a strict rachis 
bearing many very slender, erecto-patent, floriferous branches. 
Leaves erect and recurved, three to four inches long, narrow 
ligulate, but narrowed from beyond the middle to the base, 
keeled, dark green, terminated by a short bristle and several 
very acute, subterminal teeth. Branches of panicle one to 
two inches long, the lower with foliaceous, the upper with 
minute subulate bracts. Heads very shortly pedicelled, few 
together towards the tips of the branches, horizontal or 
drooping. Involucre narrow, its scales ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, green. /owers about three. Corolla white, with 
. five linear, spreading lobes. Anthers pale red-purple. Achene 
short, with stiff, scabrid, discoloured pappus.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Head; 2, flower from the same :—both magnified. 
