late, entire, smooth and shining, having a single mid-rib, which 
. Is slightly penninerved both on the under and on the upper 
surface ; venation reticulated, primary veins ending in curved 
veins within the margin. Pefiole slightly grooved on its upper 
surface, articulated with the stem. Capitula solitary, terminal 
on the young branches, homogamous, containing about twenty- 
five discoid flowers. Peduncles short, thickened upwards, having 
small scales. nvolucre somewhat turbinate, coriaceous, having 
thirty to forty imbricated scales arranged in several series, 
closely appressed in the young state, spreading after the corolla 
falls; scales green in the centre, paler towards the margins 
which are fringed with short hairs ; outer scales short, ovate, 
obtuse, often tipped with black, intermediate scales longer and 
less ovate, innermost oblong-linear, pale greenish, and about one 
inch in length. Receptacle having milky juice, nearly flat, 
marked with hexagonal spaces, in the centre of each of which 
there is a depression or pit for the flower. Corolla smooth, 
regular, tubular, about one inch and three-quarters long, of a 
pale orange colour below and becoming darker above, its limb 
divided into five narrow, revolute circinnate segments, which 
when unrolled are about half an inch long. Filaments smooth, 
coloured, inserted into the upper part of the corolline tube, alter- 
nating with the segments of the limb, arching over the orifice of 
the tube to join the anther below the middle; anthers two- 
lobed, much exserted, bifid at the apex, ending below in a bi- 
partite prolongation ; pollen elliptical, furrowed. Style cylindrical, 
exserted nearly one inch beyond the corolla and about a quarter 
of an inch beyond the antheric tube, undulated at its lower part, 
straight above. Stigma bifid, its segments equal, acute, hairy 
on the inner side of its lobes, which close on the application of 
the pollen. Ovary green, triangular, three-quarters of an inch 
long, with a short yellowish beak at the summit whence the 
pappus proceeds. Pappus reaching to near the upper part of 
the corolline tube, in several rows, its hairs unequal and beau- 
tifully serrated with projecting cellular processes, of a pale orange 
colour, spreading much after the corolla falls.” J. H. Balfour. 
Corr. This is a shrub of a robust and bushy habit, requiring 
the heat of the tropical stove, and growing in any kind of garden 
loam not retentive of moisture. Although we have had it in 
cultivation for about eight years, it was only recently that it 
showed flower ; but we are of opinion that if young plants were 
vigorously grown, they would not be so dilatory in producing 
their curious inflorescence. It ig propagated readily by cuttings 
placed under a bell-glass in bottom-heat. J_§. 
Fig. 1. Single flower :—magnified, 
