rium, Coll. VI. n. 203. He there justly observes that it is “a 
noble species, very near B. speciosa, but easily distinguished by 
the segments of the leaves being larger, flat, not white under- 
neath, nor scrobiculate above ;” and he honours it with the name 
of our gracious Queen. He does not seem to be aware of the 
figure in the ‘ Botanical Register,’ which we quote. 
Descr. This probably forms a good-sized shrub: the branches 
terete, woolly and villous, bearing small reddish abortive leaf- 
buds in the axils of the leaves. eaves about a span long, on 
short, villous pefioles, in outline oblong-cuneate, singularly trun- 
cate at the apex, with tufts of hair at the apex of the midrib ; 
they are deeply pinnatifid, almost to the base, the lobes ovato- 
triquetrous, sharply acuminate, the lower margin longer than the 
upper one, the upper side even and more or less downy, dull 
green: beneath the lobes have many prominent parallel nerves, 
paler than the upper side, but not white, distinctly downy, mi- 
nutely reticulated between the nerves: midrid beneath promi- 
nent and rusty-coloured. Head of flowers large, nearly globose : 
the flowers beautifully arranged in spiral lines. Bracteas cuneate, 
densely clothed with rusty-coloured hair, very long at the apex. 
Se silky with villous hairs, and style the same. S¢zgma subu- 
ate. 
Fig. 1. Flower and bract. 2. A single bract :—magnified. 
ees. 
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