We have carefully examined the literature of the subject, 
and the nearest approach that we have found to our plant 
is figured in the Japanese ‘‘ Somoku Zusetsu,” under the 
name of Pyrethrum Decaisneanum, Maxim. But the plant 
there figured does not at all agree with Maximowicz’s 
original description. 
C. ornatum was raised at Kew from seeds obtained in 
1895 from the University Botanic Garden, Tokyo. It was 
first tried in the open ground, where it made vigorous 
bushes three feet high, but failed to flower before it was 
- cut down by frost. Last year it was tried as a pot-plant, 
and the result was so satisfactory that itis confidently 
anticipated that it will come into favour in the greenhouse, 
where it succeeds admirably, flowering about Christmas 
time. It is so distinct from any of the varieties of the 
Florists’ Chrysanthemums as not to be brought into 
comparison with them; yet its parentage or descent is 
uncertain. 
Descr.—A branching herb forming dense bushes three 
or four feet high, and as much through. Stems and 
branches slender, angular, clothed with a white pubescence 
changing green. Leaves without stipules, slenderly stalked, 
papery, rather thick, clothed with a white felt underneath 
and on the margin, ovate in outline, one inch and a half 
to.two inches long on the flowering branches, somewhat 
-palmately pinnatifid; primary segments usually five, . 
obtuse or rounded, usually two- or four-toothed; teeth 
obtuse. Flower-heads loosely corymbose, distinctly stalked, 
an inch and three-quarters to two inches across. Bracts 
of the involucre in about three series, all similar, ovate- 
oblong, obtuse, tomentose, white in the centre, purple- 
brown on the margin. Achenes small, oblique, glabrous.— 
W. B.E. 
Fig. 1, an involucral bract ; 2, a ray-flower ; 3 and 4, disk-flowers ; 5, anthers ; 
6, style-arms :—all enlarged. 
