with a scabrid stem and deeply irregularly toothed leaves * 
bearing bulbous based bristles, of which’ the upper have 
dilated amplexicaul bases. It flowered in a stove in the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, in April of the present year, not 
having as yet assumed its climbing habit.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, hair of pappus; 3, stamens :—all en/arged. 
