Tas. 4574. 
HEBECLINIUM  tanrTHinum. 
Violet Hebeclinium. 
Nat. Ord. Composir#-EupaToRIACE®.—SYNGENESIA AIQUALIS. 
Gen. Char. Capitulum rultiflorum. Involucri campanulati sguame pluri- 
seriales, laxe subimbricatee, seepe in appendicem subcoloratam producte. Recep- 
taculum elevatum, superne plano-convexum, pube brevi conferta hirsutum et ideo 
fere piloso-fimbrilliferum. Achenia angulata. Pappus 1-serialis, pilosus, scaber. 
—Herbze australi-Americane pubescentes. Caules teretes. Folia opposita, petio- 
lata, cordata, acuminata, dentata. Corymbi terminales compositi, conferti. Corolle 
albe aut rosee.—Genus affine Eupatorio, sed differt receptaculo villoso et involucri 
squamis sepius appendiculatis. 
HEBECLINIUM ianthinum ; ramis petiolis pedunculis pedicellisque pube ferru- 
ginea vestitis, foliis amplis longe petiolatis rhombeo-ovatis acutis (basi 
cuneata integerrima) grosse mucronato-serratis supra pube brevissima sca- 
briusculis subtus pubescenti-canis, corymbo terminali composito polycephalo, 
capitulis ad apices ramulorum confertis ovatis multifloris ianthinis, acheenio 
angulato glabro, involucri squamis exappendiculatis. 
ConocLInium ianthinum. “ Morren, in Ghent Annals, May 1849.” Henfrey, 
in Gardeners’ Mag. of Bot. v.1. p. 185. 
An Eupatoroid plant, and very near, it must be confessed, to 
true Hupatorium. Professor Morren has referred it to Conocli- 
nium of De Candolle, but he, as well as Mr. Henfrey, point out 
some discrepancies, and the latter alludes to its affinity with 
Hebeclinium. n Hebeclinium native specimens of this species 
have long been in my herbarium, collected by Jurgensen and 
Linden (n. 463), not from St. Catherine, Brazil, as stated by the 
Belgian cultivator, but from Mexico, “pres de Vera Cruz et 
Zalapa” (Linden). It assuredly agrees better with Hebeclinium 
than with Conoclinium, and it is a close congener with Hebecl- 
nium macrophyllum, a common plant of Jamaica, and belongs 
to the same, or first, section of De Candolle. As a species, 
indeed, our plant differs abundantly in its large purple flowers 
and in the cuneate base to the leaf. It flowers in the winter 
APRIL Ist, 1851. 
