described it was referred by Lagasca to Ferdinanda, and 
the erroneous name F”. eminens is even yet frequently em- 
ployed for our plant in seed-lists and garden catalogues. 
The plant is of vigorous growth and easy culture provided 
it be given a sunny.and airy position. © It may be propa- 
gated by seeds or by cuttings of young growths in sandy 
soil in a moist, warm frame. Unless frequent stopping of 
growths be practised the plants become somewhat straggling 
and unbalanced. ‘To ensure free flowering in early spring 
from the leading shoots, plants should be allowed to become 
well pot-bound in comparatively small pots during winter. 
Drscriprion.—Shrub; twigs grey-tomentose, subterete. 
Leaves opposite, suborbieular or wide ovate, bluntly acumi- 
nate, narrowed to a short or long petiole, up to 9 in. 
long, 2-7 in. wide, shortly 5-7-lobed or nearly entire, 
membranous or thinly papery, scabrid puberulous above, 
grey-pubescent or nearly tomentose beneath, distinctly 
3-nerved above the base ; petiole up to 5 in. long, pubescent. 
Corymbs terminal, lax, leafy, up to 8 in. across; bracts 
linear, about 14 lin. long, pubescent ; peduncles 4-1} in. 
Jong, slender, white-tomentose. Heads 1-1} in. across, 
wide campanulate. Bracts of the involucre 3-serlate, linear 
or oblanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 14-2 lin. long, shortly 
white-tomentose outside, glabrous and shining inside. Ae- 
ceptacte conical, 1 lin. deep. Pales of the disk shorter than 
the corollas, oblanceolate, obtuse or subacute, membranous, 
keeled, sparingly puberulous. Ray-florets 9-10, spreading, 
white, corolla-tube 39 In. long, puberulous ; limb oblong- — 
oblanceolate, tip wide-emarginate, x In. long, 1—-} in. wide, 
7-nerved, glabrous; achenes narrowly obovoid, stipitate, 
d-angled, angles pubescent ; pappus-pales about 5, lanceolate, 
acute, s'5 in. long, glabrous ; style exserted, 2-lobed. Disk- 
Jlorets many, yellow; corolla tube subeylindrie, +1, in. long, 
sparingly pubescent low down; lobes 5, bluntly triangular ; 
anthers 31; in. long, acute achenes as in the ray-florets ; 
pappus-paleae rigid, 2 at the angles acute and nearly entire, 
2 lateral much shorter, wide and lacerate or 3—4-toothed. 
_ Fig. 1, portion of under surface of leaf ; 2, flower-head; 8, bract of the 
Involucre; 4, ray-floret; 5, achene; 6, scale of the receptacle; 7, disk-floret ; 
8, anthers ; 9, style-arms :—all enlarged. 
