plant, even in the Tribe Mutisiacez, which includes many 
singular and beautiful forms. Kreupel-boom, meaaing 
dwarf tree, is the Dutch name. The finest dried specimen 
we have seen is in the British Museum, and was collected 
_ by Francis Masson. 
Descr.—A very robust, tree-like shrub, three to six feet 
high. Stem simple, four to six. inches thick. Leaves 
crowded, nearly sessile, spreading, very thick, coriaceous 
and stiff, obovate or oblong, six to eighteen inches long, 
and three to eight inches broad, entire, cuneate at the 
base, rounded at the top, younger ones covered with a 
dense white wool, upper surface soon becoming smooth 
and shining; primary veins numerous, prominent, and 
rib-like. Hlowering-branch (sometimes there are two) or 
common peduncle, sub-terminal, thick, rigid, densely 
woolly, erect, bearing one to five, but usually three heads 
of flowers, and, as well as the peduncles proper, a 
number of small, oblong, shortly-stalked, acute leaves, 
deciduous after fruiting. Flower-heads large purple and 
white. Involucral bracts very numerous, in many series, 
linear and tapering into very fine points, hard, tough, 
clothed with a dense white wool at the base, thence 
glabrous and purple. Flowers white; corolla of the outer 
ones distinctly two-lipped, with the outer lip three-lobed, 
inner lip notched; corolla of the inner flowers bipartite, 
segments rolled up outwardly. Achenes very slender, 
cylindric, about half an inch long, striate, glabrous ; 
pappus-bristles numerous, uniseriate, shorter than the 
exserted stamens, very shortly plumose.—W. B. H. 
Fig. 1, an outer flower; 2, a bristle of the pappus; 3, an anther; 4, upper 
part of style and stigma from the same; 5, an inner flower; 6, anther; 
7, upper part of style and stigma, from the same:—al/ enlarged; 8, plant 
about 3 of natural size. 
