duction of this fine plant horticulture is indebted to 
Captain A. A. Dorrien Smith, Kingshill, Berkhamsted, 
by whom it was brought to England in 1910, when an 
example was presented by him to Kew. The Kew plant 
has thriven well in a cool greenhouse, but has not yet 
flowered, and for the material from which our illustration 
has been prepared we are indebted to its introducer, 
with whom one of his own examples blossomed for the 
first time in July, 1913. As a conservatory plant 
S. Hectori should prove a welcome acquisition; at Kew 
it is unfortunately too tender for cultivation out of 
doors. 
Description.—Shrub, erect, branched, reaching a height of 12-14 ft.; 
branches stout, spreading, pubescent, leafy towards their extremities. Leaves: 
lower obovate-elliptic, somewhat acute towards the base, pinnately lobulate 
where they pass into the petiole, the margin elsewhere repand-toothed, the teeth 
somewhat sharply mucronate, é-+ in. apart, 6-10 in. long, 3-5 in. wide, finely 
but sparingly pustulate above, sparsely woolly beneath ; upper sessile, elliptic- 
lanceolate or lanceolate, almost glabrous and nearly entire. Corymbs terminal, 
loosely branched, leafy, 12 in. across or wider ; peduncles glandular-puberulous. 
Heads 14-2 in. wide or in its native habitat sometimes 23 in. across; involucre 
campanulate, 2 in. long, over 2 in. wide in the middle; bracts 12-14, more or 
less 2-seriate, but with a few additional linear basal ones, those of the involucre 
proper oblong-linear, acutely acuminate, glabrous outside, hirsute at the tip 
within, their margin narrowly cartilaginous-membranous. Ray-florets 12-14, 
white; corolla-tube narrow cylindric, } in. long, glabrous ; lamina lanceolate, 
minutely 3-toothed at the tip, $ in. long; style-arms slender, far-exserted. 
Disk-florets yellow ; corolla-tube narrow-cylindric below, 3 in. long, slightly 
widened upwards, glabrous ; lobes 5, oblong-lanceolate, somewhat acute, 54 in. 
long, exserted. Achenes 7 in, long, glabrous. Pappus white, copious; setae 
3 in. long, barbellate, 
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Tas. 8705.—Fig. 1, ray-floret ; 2, disk-floret ; 8, pappus-seta; 4, anthers ; 
5, style-arms :—all enlarged, 
