the plant in situ. This is reproduced in ‘‘ The Gardener's 
Chronicle.” 
S. sagittifolius is most nearly allied to S. Hualtata, 
Bertero (in DC. Prodr. vi. 417), a native of ditches in 
Chili, a more'slender plant, in which the leaves are fifteen 
inches long, of a rhombic hastate form, the heads of flowers 
much smaller, and the ray flowers only 10 to 12 in 
number. 
S. sagittifolius is a native of marshy places in Uruguay, 
where it was discovered, I believe, by M. Gibert, an energetic 
explorer of the botany of that region, by whom specimens 
were sent to the late Sir W. Hooker, which are preserved 
in the Kew Herbarium. 1 
The specimen here figured was presented to the Roya 
Gardens in 1892 by M. André, the introducer of the species, 
who found it near Monte Video, growing in marshes. Mr. 
Watson, under whom it flowered, in a cool greenhouse, 
in March of the present year, informs me that it he 
apparently perennial, having sent up new growths from ce 
base of the old stem; these, however, perished, after the 
flowering of the plant, which did not ripen its seed.— 
J.D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flowers of ray ; 2, do. of disk; 3, pappus hairy; 4, stamens; 5, sty < 
branches :— All enlarged. 
