valued correspondent of Kew, Herr Max Leichtlin of Baden 
Baden, in July of last year. 
Dzscr. A low tabular-headed, very robust bush. Branch- 
lets as thick as the middle finger, as well as the petioles 
leaves beneath and midrib above, peduncles and involucres, 
densely clothed with white or pale red-brown felted hairs. 
Leaves four to six inches long, elliptic oblong or obovate, 
obtuse, quite entire, thickly coriaceous, at first woolly 
above, at length quite glabrous smooth and shining ; base 
acute, obtuse or subcordate; petiole very stout, terete, 
half to one and a half inches long, nerves very obscure on 
both surfaces. Peduncles axillary or subterminal, one- very 
rarely more-flowered, four to six inches long, as thick as 
a goose-quill, usually with one or two small narrow leaves 
on the upper part. Head an inch in diameter, subglobose, 
narrowed upwards ; bracts very many, small, appressed, 
imbricate in many series, lanceolate, outer obtuse, upper- 
most with needle-like recurved points. Flowers of ray very 
many, in two or more series, white; ray linear, half an 
inch long, three-toothed; disk flowers narrowly tubular, 
yellow, five-toothed. Achenes slender, silky, the upper- 
most hairs more rigid and lengthened like an outer pappus, 
but quite smooth; pappus of one row of rigid white or 
rufous scabrid bristles slightly thickened at the tips.— 
a DH, 7 
Fig. 1, Flower of the ray ; 
2, do. of the disk ; 3, hai : : 
5, style-arms :—all enlarged. , » hair of pappus; 4, anthers ; 
