Tas. 7799. 
CINERARIA pentacrina. 
Native of South Africa ? 
Nat. Ord. Composirz.—Tribe SENECIONIDER. 
Genus Cineranrta, Linn, ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 445.) 
Cinzraria (Eucineraria) pentactina; glaberrima, caule gracillimo scandente 
ramoso, ramis ramulisque santatia pallide rubris, foliis parvis gracile 
petiolatis semi-orbiculatis # pol]. diam. breviter 5-lobis basi truncatis 
pallide viridibus, lobis late triangularibus 3-crenatis obtusis, paniculis 
elongatis ascendentibus laxifloris ramis ramulis distantibus pedunculisque 
gracillimis pallide rubris, pedicellis squamulis sparsis minutis subulatis 
instructis, involucri cylindracei } poll. longi ecalyculati bracteis 6-10 
linearibus acuminatis v. lineari-oblongis acutis 3—5-nerviis marginibus late 
hyalinis, receptaculo parvo convexo, floribus ra‘lii 5, ligulis lineari-oblongis 
% poll. longis apice rotundatis aureis, floribus disci aurantiacis, acheniis 
radii minutis vix ~; poll. longis late oblongis compressis brunneis 
marginibus longe villosis, disco medio pubescente, pappo albo achznio vix 
duplo longiore, pilis margine cupule persistentis insertis mollibus 
scaberulis caducis. 
The native country of Cineraria pentactina is unrecorded, 
though it may with little doubt be regarded as South 
Africa, from its close affinity with C. lobata, L’Herit. 
(Sert. Angl. t. 34) which has a wide range of distribu- 
tion in the southern districts of Cape Colony. From that 
plant C. pentactina differs chiefly in its very slender climb- 
ing habit, less divided leaves, and lax paniculate inflores- _ 
cence, with very long branches, peduncles, and pedicels. 
It is a very elegant plant, as seen climbing a pillar of the 
greenhouse in the Royal Gardens, Kew, of which it is 
a very old inhabitant, flowering profusely in the summer 
months. 
Descv.—Quite glabrous. Stem very slender, about as 
thick as a sparrow’s quill and branches dull red; branch- 
lets pendulous. Leaves alternate, distant or fascicled on 
short lateral shoots, semi-orbicular in outline, three-fourths 
of an inch in diameter, shortly, broadly five-lobed, base 
truncate, pale green on both surfaces; petiole slender, 
about as long as the blade, base not auricled. Flowers in 
lax, ascending, terminal panicles ; peduncles and pedicels 
very slender, pale red; bracts on the pedicels minute, 
OcroBeR Ist, 1901. 
