( 1786 ) 



Cineraria aurita. Purple-flowered 

 Cineraria 



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Class and Order. 

 Syngenesia Polygamia Superflua. 



Generic Character. 



Recept nudum. Pappus simplex. Cal. simplex, polyphyllus 

 aequalis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Cineraria aurita ; (suffruticosa) floribus corymbosis, foliis 

 cordatis subangulatis subtus tomentosis, petiolis basi bi- 

 auritis. L'Herit. Sert. Angl. p. 26 ; icone nondum eclita. 

 Hort. Kew. ed. l ma - 3. p. 220.— ed. alt. 5. p. 72. Willd. 

 Sp. PL S. p. 2077. Martyn Mill. Diet n. 33. 



The Cineraria aurita is a greenhouse under-shrub, with 

 a woolly stem, disposed to climb. The leaves are tomentose on 

 the under side. TheJIowers grow in large corymbs, and are of 

 a brightish purple colour, but much paler than those of 

 Cineraria cruenta, smaller, and less shewy : they have also 

 a very disgusting smell. 



It has a nearer affinity with populifolia than cruenta, from 

 the latter of which it is readily distinguished by the smaller 

 leaves, white underneath, with long petioles not winged at the 

 sides,, and having a single pair of roundish stipules at the base ; 

 besides that, tiie stem of cruenta is herbaceous. From 

 populifolia it is distinguished by the want of several tooth- 

 like appendices on the footstalk. 



Native of the Island of Madeira, where it was found by 

 Mr. Francis Masson, and was introduced into the Kew 

 Crardcn in 1790. Flowers in June and July. Communicated 

 *>}' John Walker, Esq. of Arno's-Grove, 



