Tab. 5826. 

 PAEANEPHELIUS uniflorus. 



Single-flowered Paranephelius. 



Nat. Ord. Composite. — Syngenesia Superflua. 



Gen. Char. — Capitulum multiflorum, heterogamum. Involucri plu- 

 riseriati squamae imbricate, interiores angustissimas. Heceptaculum breviter 

 fimbrilliferum. Flores radii uniseriati, ligulati, foeminei ; filamentis 2-5 

 longe exsertis anantheris ; disci hermaphroditi, tubulosi. Corollce villosae, 

 disci tubulosge, limbi quinquepartiti laciniis oblongis tubo brevioribus ; radii 

 ligulatae, tubo longo, ligula oblonga tridentata. Stylus disci basi bulboso- 

 incrassatus, profunde bifidus, ramis elongatis revolutis dense hispidis ; radii 

 ramis abbreviatis. Achcenia ovalia, sulcata, glabra, apice concava, callo 

 basilari ; pappus multiseriatus, setis sequalibus rigidis hispidis — Herbae 

 acaules, in exeelsis Andium Peruvise et Bolivia? hucusque solum visee. Folia 

 rosulata, dentata v. pinnatUobata, subtus niveo-tomentosa. Capitula majuscula, 

 solitaria, lutea. 



Paranephelius uniflorus, Pcepp. and Endl. Nov. Gen. and Sp. PI. Chil. vol. 

 iii. p. 42, t. 248. Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 103. Weddell, Chloris Andina, 

 vol. i. p. 213. 



A very beautiful hardy or half-hardy composite, remarkable 

 for the brilliant golden colour of the flowers and the bright- 

 green reticulated foliage, which is snowy- white underneath. 

 It is a native of the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes, and was 

 raised from seed by W. W. Saunders, F.B.S., to whom I am 

 indebted for the specimen here figured. It appears to be 

 thoroughly Alpine, inhabiting rocky places at 14,000 to 

 18,000 feet elevation; and, like most such plants, is very 

 variable. Three species of the genus are described: P. 

 uniflorus, P. & E. ; P. bullatus, Wedd., and P. ovatus, Wedd., 

 (ovalifolius, A. Gray) ; but I suspect that these are all 

 varieties of one. The present does not exactly accord with 

 any ; but the main, if not only differences, arise from luxuri- 

 ance of growth ; these are the elongated stem, robust habit, 

 march 1st, 1870. 



