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been prepared was communicated to Kew by Mr. T. A. 
Dorrien Smith, in whose garden at Tresco Abbey, Isles of 
Scilly, it thrives luxuriantly and flowers profusely in March 
and April. : | 
Descriprion.—Shrub, 1-2 ft. high, fastigiately branched, 
the branches cylindric, glabrous, yellowish green; flower- 
bearing twigs about 4 in. long. Leaves green, cuneate, 
deeply 3-5-lobulate, 3-5 lin. long, 2-24 lin. broad, coria- 
eeous, glabrous. //eads solitary, axillary, at first nearly 
corymbose, at length raceme-like, 8 lin. across ; peduncles 
erect, slender, reaching 1 in. in length, glabrous; bracts of 
the involucre connate at the base, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
1-2 lin. long, membranous, glabrous, 3-nerved. fay- 
florets 6, yellow; tube } lin. Jong, glabrous; limb oblong, 
3 lin. long, 1-14 lin. broad, the tip 3-toothed. isk-florets 
campanulate above, with triangular obtuse lobes. Anthers 
appendaged, $ lin. long. Achenes nearly terete, glabrous; 
pappus hairs white, spreading ; style arms 4 lin. long. 
Fig. 1, a leaf; 2, a flower-bud; 3, ray-floret; 4, disk-floret; 5, anthers; 
6, pappus hair :—all enlarged. 
