bers, they were found to bear him out in his eulogies ; and these 
have both now happily been raised from seeds in our gardens ; 
so that in April of the present year we had the pleasure to re- 
ceive beautiful samples of the two, flowering in great perfection, 
from the nursery of Messrs. Garaway, Mayes, and Co., of the 
Bristol Nursery. The same were exhibited at the summer exhi- 
bitions of the present year, and have attracted much attention. 
Both are figured in the present number. That now before us, 
G. tulipifera, though only two feet ten inches high, had from 150 
to 200 heads of flowers upon it. Each little branch is terminated 
with a drooping richly coloured involucre, resembling a gay tulip, 
and which many, unacquainted with the family to which the plant _ 
belongs, take for a large corolla: whereas they are but floral 
leaves, shelterimg and completely concealing from view the real 
flowers. It is a hardy greenhouse plant. 
Dzusor. Shrub between two and three feet high, firm, erect, 
much branched; branches nearly erect, angled, pale brown. 
Leaves mostly opposite, nearly sessile, perennial, patent, between 
elliptical and oblong, dark green above and punctated, pale be- 
neath, the margin cartilaginous or submembranaceous, pellucid, 
minutely serrulate. Heads of several flowers terminating the nu- 
merous branches, and with their large and highly coloured zavolucre 
drooping. The upper leaves are also gradually larger, broader, 
and more or less coloured ; those, constituting the involucre, with 
the interior or uppermost ones white, more or less streaked or 
blotched with deep rose or blood colour, and so arranged as to 
resemble a large bell-shaped, polypetalous corolla. Flowers 
small, few in number, collected into a head at the base of the 
involucre, each subtended by two concave and subcarinate drac- 
teoles. Calyx-tube subturbinate, below ten-furrowed, the furrows 
transversely wrinkled: /imé of five, small, obtuse teeth. Corolla 
of five, ovate, obtuse petals. Stamens arising from the edge of a 
— fleshy annulus or dise at the mouth of the calyx ; ten perfect, 
short, with globose anthers, and ten (outer series) are minute, 
clavate staminodia. Style thrice as long as the flower, thick, 
subulate, barbate below the acute stigma. 
Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Flower. 8, 4. Bracteoles. 5. Vertical section of calyx. 
6. Stamen and staminodium :—sagnijied. 
