1836. Flowering plants appeared in the stove of the Glas- 
gow Botanic Garden in July, 1837. The description of the 
pappus is by no means so accurate as it ought to be in the 
work above quoted. ‘The awns are three, it is true, and 
short ;—but one is always very much smaller than the 
other two, 
Descr. Plant two to three feet high, branched. Branches 
downy ; flowering ones opposite. Leaves opposite, nearly 
glabrous, ovate acuminate, three-nerved, coarsely serrated, 
attenuated, but not petiolated at the base, pale beneath, 
upper ones lanceolate. Capitula collected into very dense 
pedunculated heads. Involucre cylindrical, of about five to 
six narrow-lanceolate leaflets, in a single series, clothed with 
glutinous down, five or six-flowered ; flowers much exserted. 
Corolla beautiful rose colour: tube long, clavate, slender, 
downy ; limb of five deep, spreading, oblong segments. 
Anthers almost wholly included within the tube, yellow. 
Branches of the style very long, wholly exserted, filiform, 
but slightly attenuated at both extremities and downy. 
Achenia (black when ripe) long, narrow, four-sided, with 
the angles margined and scabrous, as long as the involucre. 
Pappus of three rather strong, rigid awns, of which two are 
subulate, about one-fourth the length of the achenium ; the 
third very small, short, broad and acute, all of them smooth. 
ig. 1. Capitulum, 2. Flower. 3. Scarcely mature Achenium :—mag- 
nified. é = 
