radiate with the large, rose-coloured, oval, spreading appendages, 
exactly resembling radiate florets. Receptacle small, convex, 
alveolate, bearing many yellow forefs, of which the centre are 
male, with an imperfect pisfi/ and sfyle and stigma: the outer 
ones hermaphrodite, with long recurved branches of the s/yles 
and conical stigmas. Achenium oblong, silky. Sete of the 
pappus as long as the corollas. Corollas all tubular, five- 
toothed. W.J. H. 
_ Cvutr. This plant, a native of Western Australia, must be— 
treated as a tender annual. Its seeds should be sown in spring, 
in a pot or pan of light soil, placed in moderate heat; the 
plants, as soon as they are of sufficient size, must be trans-_ 
planted singly into small pots, and kept for a time in a close — 
frame, admitting air gradually to harden them; and as they 
become larger they must be shifted into larger pots, and, in 
order to have a greater show of flowers, four or five plants may 
be placed in one pot. When in flower they may be placed in 
the greenhouse. //. 8. a 
Fig. 1. Lower portion of stem :—wnatural size. 2. Receptacle of capitulum. 
3. Inner scale of the involucre. 4. Hermaphrodite floret. 5. Male do. 6. 
Seta from the achzenium :—magnified. 
