Hook. f., a native of New Zealand, from which our plant 
may be most readily distinguished by its broader leaves, 
and by its longér peduncles with fewer and more leafy 
bracts. For the material on which our figure is based we 
are indebted to the kindness of the Rev. A. IT. Boscawen, in 
whose garden at Ludgvan Rectory, near Marazion, a plant 
imported by Captain Dorrien-Smnith in 1908 flowered in 
June, 1911. The species, Mr. Boscawen informs us, has so 
far proved quite hardy at Ludgvan. It prefers a position 
sheltered from the mid-day sun, and seems to thrive best in 
a mixture of bog-earth, leaf-mould and grit. It is easily 
propagated by means of cuttings, which readily strike in the 
open without any protection. 
Descriprion.— Shrub, 3-7 ft. high; stems stout, branches 
stout, sulcate, softly white-tomentose. Leaves alternate, 
oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, subacute or shortly. 
acuminate, narrowed below to a short broad _ petiole, 
25-5 in. long, 3-14 in. wide, thick, firmly leathery, serrate 
with blunt thickened teeth, glabrous, reticulate and green 
above, densely white-woolly beneath, main nerves 2-3 on 
each side of the midrib and like it impressed above, 
slightly raised beneath. Heads peduncled, 2-2} in. wide; 
peduncle woolly with a few leafy bracts. Bracts of the 
involucre linear or oblanceolate-linear, acute or sub- 
acute, 4-5 lin. long, scarious, woolly towards the apex 
outside, glabrous within. Ray-florets many, usually pale 
violet-purple, occasionally in wild plants white; corolla- 
tube 2 lin. long, sparingly puberulous, limb oblong-linear, 
subacute, 7-8 lin. long, about 2 lin. wide, entire, elabrous. 
Disk-florets violet-purple ; corolla-tube cylindric, dilated 
upwards, 2 lin. long; lobes lanceolate, subacute. Anthers 
1 lin. long. Style glabrous ; its arms subacute, under 1 Jin. 
long. uit narrowed to the base, suleate, 24 lin. long, 
puberulous. Pappus I-seriate, setose ; setae unequal, the 
longest 2 lin. long. 
Fig. 1, bract of the involucre; 2, part of a ray-floret; 8, setae of the pappus; 
4, disk-floret; 5, anther; 6 style-branches :—all enlarged, 
