The plant from which the figure now given has been 
prepared was presented to Kew in April, 1907, by Mr. R. 
Diespecker, Adstock House, Winslow, who had raised it 
from seed received from British East Africa. It has formed 
a shrub, in habit much resembling some of the Kupatoriums, 
attaining a height of 5 ft.; it flowers freely and _con- 
tinuously during winter and spring. It admits of easy 
cultivation in a green-house, and requires the treatment 
most suitable for the winter-flowering species of Hupatorium. 
Descriprion.—Shrub, attaining a height of 5 ft., branches 
furrowed and sparingly villous, branchlets densely villous- 
tomentose. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, base 
cuneate or slightly rounded, apex subacute, 2-5 in. long, 
$_13 in, wide, doubly serrate, membranous, pubescent above, 
villous-tomentose beneath, nerves 8-13 on each side, pro- 
minent beneath; petioles 1-1} in. long. Heads lilac, 
campanulate, each about 2 in. wide, arranged in lax, almost 
corymbose panicles which are about 6 in. across; peduncles 
2-24 in. long. Bracts of the involucre 3-4-seriate, from 
elliptic-ovate to lanceolate, acute or subacute, 4-j in. long, 
4_1 lin. wide, villous-tomentose outside, and with scarious 
edges. Corolla } in. long, the tube curved and somewhat 
enlarged beyond the middle, 2 lin. long, the lanceolate lobes 
1 lin. long. Achenes somewhat turbinate, $ lin. long, glab- 
Se Pappus composed of a few very caducous setae | lin. 
ong. 7 = 
Fig. 1, section of a capitulum; 2, flower; 3, pappus-seta; 4, stamens; sis 
5, style :—all enlarged. 
