Tas. 4511.. 
GYNOXYS FRAGRANS. 
Fragrant Gynowys. 
Nat. Ord. ComposiT&#.—SENECIONIDE®.—SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
Gen. Char. Capitulum wultifloram, heterogamum, fl. radii 1-seriatis ligulatis 
feemineis, disci tubulosis 5-dent. hermaphr. —Jnvol. 1-seriale, bracteolis seeplus 
paucis subealyculatum, disco brevius. ecept. planum, alveolatum. Styli fl. herm. 
rami in conum hispidum elongatum acutissimum producti, deorsum spe 
hispiduli. Achenia erostria, exalata, teretiuscula. Pappus conformis, pilosus, 
pluriserialis.—Species in America aquinoctiali, alie arborescentes oppositifolia, 
alie scandentes alternifolia. Folia petiolata. Capitula corymbosa, flava. De Cand. 
Gynoxys fragrans ; scandens glaberrima, foliis alternis sublonge petiolatis ovatis 
seu ovato-lanceolatis acutis subcarnosis integerrimis indistincte venosis, 
racemis corymbosis terminalibus, flosculis radii paucis, bracteolis 4-6 
patentissimis subulatis. 
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We received this plant at the Royal Gardens of Kew from 
Guatemala, by favour of G. Ure Skinner, Esq. It proves quite 
new both to our Gardens and to the Herbarium, and where there 
is much stove accommodation, it is worth cultivating, for though 
the flowers are truly those of a Ragwort, they are of rather large 
size, and very fragrant, the scent very much like that of our 
garden stock, and the climbing habit is not of very common 
occurrence in the Natural Order of Composite. It flowered in 
December, trailed against the underside of the glass in the 
great stove. The genus Gynorys is assuredly too near Senecio. 
* Descr. Root tuberous. Stems very long, climbing, perennial, 
branched ; dranches subpellucid and succulent, terete, apparently 
showing a disposition to root at the setting on of a branch. 
Leaves alternate, rather distant, petiolate, on long terete petioles, 
exactly ovate or approaching to lanceolate, acute, wavy at the 
margin, of a rather thick and fleshy texture, dark green, 
ers are rather large, very 
and in the lower part leafy 
‘» corymbose raceme. TInvolucre cylindrical, with about s1 ; lax, 
_ "spreading, subulate bracteoles at the base. Florets of the 
