Tab. 7616. 

 CALLISTEPHUS hortensis, Cass. 



Native of Western China. 



Nat. Ord. Composite. — Tribe Asteroide^e. 

 Genus Callistephus, Cass.; (Benth. & HooJc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 270.) 



Callistephtjs hortensis; herba annua, erecta, robusta, ramosa, hirtella, foliis 

 alternis ovatis grosse insequaliter et obtuse dentatis lobulatisve basi 

 cuneatis in petiolum latum angustatis, capitulis ad apices ramorum 

 solitariis sessilibus amplis heterogamis radiatis, floribus omnibus fertilibus, 

 radii femineis 1-pluri-seriatis disci hermaphroditis, involucri hemispbaerici 

 bracteis multiseriatis exterioribus subfoliaceis sqnarroso-recurvis interiori- 

 bus scariosis erectis appressis oblongis obtusis, receptaculo planiusculo 

 alveolato, fl. radii ligulis patentibtis obtusis, fl. disci tubulosis, tubo infra 

 medium abrupte angnstato, ore breviter obtuse 5-lobo, antheris basi 

 obtusis, styli ramis brevibus complanatis obtusis, acbeniis compressi8 

 apice annulo minutissimo setuloso coronatis, pappi setis tenuibus 

 barbellatis caducis. 



0. hortensis, Cass, in Diet. 8c. Nat. xxvii. (1825), p. 491. Forbes & Hemsl. in 



Journ. Linn. 8oc. vol. xxvi. 407. 

 C. cbinensis, Nees, Aster, p. 222. DC. Prodr. vol. v. p. 274. Clarke, Comp. 



Ind. p. 41. Bretschneid. Early Furop. Pes. Fl. China, p. 101. 



Oallistemma hortensis, Cass, in Bull. Philom. 1817, p. 32 ; Opusc. t. 7 ; et in 

 Diet. 8c. Nat. vol. vi. Suppl. p. 45 ; Lc. Bot. Dicot. t. 90. 



Diplopappus chinensis, Less. Syn. Comp. p. 165. 



Aster chinensis, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 877. Mill. Gard. Diet. Ed. 8, No. 30. Ait. 

 Sort. Kew. Ed. 1, vol. iii. 20. 



Aster Chenopodii folio &c, Dill. Hort. Fltlmm. p. 38, t. 34 (1732). 



Aster 3, Trew, Hort. nitidis*, t. 121, 122 (1786). 



Though the " China Aster " has been repeatedly figured 

 under its garden forms, I know of only two really good 

 representations of it as found in a wild state, one in the 

 " Hortus Elthamensis " of Dillenius, published in 1732, the 

 other in Trew's " Hortus nitidissimus " (1786). There is a 

 fair one in the " Dictionaire des Sciences Naturelles," but 

 it is too much reduced to give a satisfactory idea of 

 the plant, which is now rarely seen except in a condition 

 with the disk flowers ligulate. 



As a genus Callistephus is distinguished from Aster by 

 the inner scarious involucral bracts, to which most authors 

 add the crown of minute bristles forming what has been 

 considered an outer pappus, but this is sometimes an all 

 but imperceptible character. It has no congeners, and its 



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