J OMOSTYLIUM cabulicum, Nees in Linnea, vol. xviii. p. 513. 
Tas. 6672. 
MICROGLOSSA axpesorns. 
Native of the Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. Compositm.—Tribe AsTEROIDER. 
Genus Microetossa; DC.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 282.) 
Microetossa albescens ; erecta, suffruticosa, ramis sub-sulcatis, ramulis foliis subtus 
et inflorescentia cano-pubescentibus, foliis breviter petiolatis lanceolatis acutis 
v. acuminatis integerrimis, capitulis parvis numerosissimis pedunculatis in 
paniculas corymbiformes terminales et axillares gracile pedunculatas confertis, 
involucro campanulato, bracteis anguste lanceolatis acuminatis exterioribus 
brevioribus, floribus radii azureis, -acheniis oblongis angulatis et costatis 
pubescentibus pappo rufo paullo brevioribus, 
M. albescens, Clarke Comp. Ind. p. 59; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. ii. p. 257. 
M. cabulica et M. Griffithii, Clarke 7. e. pp. 57, 58. 
Aster cabulicus, Lindl, in Bot. Reg. 1843, Mise. 62; Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 
1847, p. 34; Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. iii. p. 158. 
AsTeER ferrugineus, Edgew. in Trans. Linn, Soc. vol. xx. p. 64. 
AsTER albescens, Walp. Cat. n. 2974. 
AMPHIRAPHIS albescens, DC. Prodr. vol. v. p. 343. 
ONYZA conspicua, Wall. Cat. n. 3066. 
Though cultivated in England so long ago as 1842, this 
very handsome and hardy shrub is very little known in 
gardens. It was introduced by Dr. Royle when in charge 
of the Saharumpore Botanical Gardens, and flowered first 
in those of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick; where, 
from the erroneous supposition that the seeds were sent 
from Affghanistan, it received the name of Aster cabulicus. 
It affords a conspicuous example of the confusion into 
which Indian Botany fell during the first half of this 
century, for it received no less than nine names, and was 
referred to five genera, within a comparatively very short 
period after its being first known to botanists. As a 
genus Microglossa differs from Aster chiefly in the very 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1883. 
