Mr. H. H. Travers and disposed of by auction at the rooms 
of Messrs Protheroe and Morris in 1908. It was planted, 
along with various species of Olearia, in an unheated frame, 
where it grew well and flowered freely in the summer of 1910. 
It may prove to be hardy in England, and if so, should bea 
most useful plant for the rock garden, being a perennial and 
evergreen with handsome foliage, and forming, when in 
flower, a strikingly beautiful object. 
Descripri0n.—ZHHerb, perennial; rootstock stout, with a 
densely woolly crown. Leaves radical, petioled, wide 
oblong-elliptic or nearly orbicular, rounded at the apex, 
slightly cordate at the base, 3-5 in. long, 13-4 in. wide, 
coriaceous, margin waxy, denticulate, laxly and ad pressed 
villous, but soon almost alabrous above, distinctly setose 
near the magin, hoary-woolly beneath; lateral nerves 7-9 
on each side, spreading at the base, somewhat incurved 
towards the apex; petiole stout, up to 23 in. long, hoary- 
woolly and purplish setose like the midrib. Scapes up to 
1 ft. high, branched, clothed with white hairs and purple 
setae ; bracts spathulate or linear, over 1 in. long; 
peduncles 2 
3-13 in. long. Heads almost corymbose, 13 in. 
across, yellow. Jnvolucral bracts narrow lanceolate, sub- 
acute, about 3 in. long, villous outside. Ray-florets 18-20 ; 
corolla-tube cylindric, over 1 lin. long, glabrous; limb ob- 
lanceolate, 3-dentate at the tip, 4 in. long, 2 lin. wide, 
4-nerved, glabrous 
; achenes cylindric, glabrous; pappus 
setae barbellate, nearly 2 lin, long. Disk-florets numerous ; 
corolla-tube 2 lin, long, narrowed below the middle, 
widened above the middle, glabrous; lobes ovate-lanceolate, 
pote very small, glabrous; anthers obtuse, over 1 lin. 
ong ; 
> Pappus setae and achenes as in the ray-florets ; style- 
arms } lin. long, 
Fig. 1, portion of a leaf showing the setae near the edge; 2, an involucral 
bract ; 3, ray-flo 
; ret; 4, disk-floret ; 5, pappus seta; 6, anthers; 7, style-arms; 
®, an entire plant, showing habit :—al/ enlarged eacept 8, which is much reduced. 
