white. Bractee three to each flower : the outer one small, 
roundish, acuminate, membranous, scariose, greenish, tipped 
with purple : two inner ones three or four times as large, 
resembling the calycine valves of a grass, and in like 
manner including the flower, purple, carinated, carina 
winged and serrated. Perianth of five, lanceolate, mem- 
branaceous, scarcely coloured segments, enveloped within 
and without almost to the point with a delicate woolly sub- 
stance. Tube of the stamens rather longer than the peri- 
anth, cylindrical, membranous, reticulated, white, termi- 
nated by five bifid teeth, within which, between the notch, 
in each tooth, a sessile, linear, one-celled, yellow anther is 
inserted. Pistil shorter than the tube of the stamens, 
globose, ‘Gack into a short style, which has two «linear 
stigmas. sule or Utricule containing a single, reniform, 
brown, pedicellated, compressed seed. 
Introduced into Britain from the East Indies so long ago 
as the year 1714, and extensively cultivated as a favourite 
ornamental plant in the gardens of the rich, and in. the 
windows of the poor cottagers ; yet so far neglected by the 
Botanist, that it has not been honoured with a figure im any 
British publication that has come within my observation, 
The structure and colour and texture of the flowers when 
accurately examined are highly beautiful, but, like those of 
the Class Syneenesia, require nicety and care in the dis- 
section and analysis. The generic name is altered from 
Gromphena (ypage, to paint) which Puiny applied to the 
Three-Coloured, or Painted Amaranth, a t naturally 
allied to this. Both floral coverings of that 2 
liarly = and imperishable nature as to have me ited the 
name of Everlasting, and hence they are considered in 
many countries as the emblems of friendship. In the East 
Indies the common Globde-flower is formed into garlands to 
ornament the hair, and to adorn instruments of music at the 
festivals : and in the South of E , for the tis now 
cultivated in almost every part of the al 
decorated with it in the winter. 
As a tender annual, the GompHrEeNA sa requires to 
be raised in a hot-bed, and planted out during the summer. 
~ Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower, with its three Bra 2. Back view of 
ditto. 3. Flower. 4. Portion of the Staminal Tube. 5, Pistl 6. Uti 
cule. 7, Seed.—All more or less magnified. ha py 
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