Tab. 6853. 

 DENDROSEBIS maceophylla. 



Native of Juan Fernandez. 



Nat. Orel. Composite.— Tribe Cichobiaokje. 

 Genus DKXDitosEms, Don; (Bcnth. et Hook. / Om. Plant, vol. ii. p. 504. 



DtspKOSKHia maerophyUaj arbor lmmilis, gkbemma, trimco nudo apice monc- 

 cephalo, fohis amplis petiolatis oblongis oblongo-rottmdatiBve obtusis v. 

 suDacutia smuato-lobatis bad cordatis rotumktisvc, suminis auriculato- 

 amplexicaulibus integerrimis, pauicula laxa nutante, pedunoolu braoteatis, 



capitulis 3 poll, diametr. mvolueri urceolato-cainpanulati bracteis herbaceil 

 extenonbus ovatis acutis interioribus linearibus acuminata. 



D. macrophylla, Don in Phil Mag. 1832, p. 388; Hook, et Am. in Com*. 



Pot. Mag. vol. i. p. ;)2, 



REAiiiacrantba; Bertero ex Dene, in Gnill. Archie. <le Dot. vol. i. p. oil t ix 

 f. a. et t. x ; DO. Prod. vol. vii. p. 2-kS. 



The island of Juan Fernandez is famous for its tree Com- 

 positte, of which there are about a dozen species, belonging 

 to the genera Dendroscris and liobmwma, the latter one of 

 the tribe Senecionidce. In this predominance of tree Com- 

 positae it resembles the Galapago Islands, lying much further 

 north, and under the equator, as also New Zealand, on the 

 other side of the Pacific, and St. Helena, in the Atlantic 

 Ocean. ^ In the Indian Ocean, on the other hand, in the 

 Mauritius and Seychelles, there are no arborescent Comjjosifw, 

 nor are there in the Oceanic Islands of the northern hemi- 

 sphere. 



The genus Dendroseris is confined to Juan Fernandez group 

 of Islands, and the present species inhabits both the principal 

 island and Masafuera, where it was discovered by Bertero in 

 1830, growing on the mountains, and flowering in May. 

 The D. macrophyUa was imported by Messrs. Veitch, through 

 their collector Mr. Downton, the discoverer of the beautiful 



•vpuii, 1st, 1878. 



