succeeds the chrysanthemum, it should prove a valuable 
addition to winter-flowering conservatory plants. Up to 
the present time there has been no description of the 
species but that I here give. Of the origin or introduction 
of the species I have found no record. It is regarded as 
Mexican, probably correctly, as that country is the head- 
quarters of the genus. — 
As a species it is difficult to assign to D. Maximiliana 
botanical characters that would by words distinguish 16 
from some of the forms of the common D. variabilis, Desf., 
than which it is a very much larger plant, with a more 
branching fistular ? stem; the foliage more resembles that 
of D. imperialis, but is less divided, and with comparatively 
slender petioles. The flowers are totally unlike those of 
D. imperialis, and, except in the lovely colour, resemble 
those of D. variabilis. 
The specimen from which the accompanying figure was 
made was kindly sent in February of this year (along with 
other interesting plants to be figured in this work) by 
Commendatore Hanbury, F.L.S., from his unrivalled 
garden at Palazzo Orengo, La Mortola, Ventimiglia. 
_ Descr,—Stem six to eight feet high, copiously branched, 
fistular, glabrous, green, lenticellate; branches long, 
spreading, leafing and flowering. Leaves spreading, lower 
two to three feet long, bipinnate, with slender, fistular 
petioles, and few sessile or petiolulate leaflets, one to three 
inches long; leaflets few, ovate, or oblong-ovate, coarsely _ 
serrate, from acute to caudate-acuminate, thin, glabrous or — 
puberulous on both surfaces, terminal rather the largest, 
oblong, base rounded, obtuse, or acute, or suddenly 
narrowed and decurrent on the petiole. Flowers copiously 
produced in the axils of the upper leaves, and in loose 
corymbs terminating the main stem and branches. IJn- 
voluere, ray, and disk-florets as in D. variabilis, with rays 
of a lovely mauve colour,—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Inner involucral bract and disk flower; 2, ovary, tube, and part 
of the corolla with style of a ray-flowar; 3, stamens :—A// enlarged, 
