months with us, and is then very ornamental. We owe the 
possession of our plant to Messrs. Hendersons, St. John’s Wood. 
Descr. An herbaceous rather than a shrubby plant. Stem 
and branches terete, clothed with rusty down. Leaves opposite, 
on very long petioles, often a span long, ovate, but decidedly 
cuneate and entire at the base, very acute rather than acuminate, 
coarsely and often doubly serrated, the serratures mucronate. Co- 
rymb \arge, the capitula clustered at the ends of the branches. 
Flowers remarkable for the exceedingly long purple styles, which 
have, at first sight, almost the effect of a many-flowered ray. The 
corollas are also purple. Achenium angular. Pappus of few 
scabrous sete. W.J. H. 
Cutt. A soft-wooded suffruticose plant, of easy cultivation. 
It may be grown in a pot, and flowers freely when not a foot 
high. Any kind of light open soil will suit it. It has 
hitherto been treated as a stove-plant ; but, judging from its 
affinity to Ageratum, and from its present appearance, we think 
that if planted out in the open border in the month of May, it 
will grow luxuriantly during the summer months. It increases 
readily by cuttings, treated in the usual way. J. 8. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Anther :—magnified. 
