178 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 
form of the paleæ and the want of any excavated and thickened 
portion at their base, as well as in theegreater size of the plant. I add 
its characters : 
CHTHONOCEPHALUS Drummondii, n. sp.: capitulis multis inter folia 
rosulata anguste spathulata glomeratis; paleis late ovalibus vel 
suborbiculatis obtusissimis undique hyalinis basi lata nec excavatis 
nec induratis. 
Swan River, Drummond.— Plant, including the outstretched leaves, 
from one to two inches in diameter; the exterior leaves half an inch 
long, cinereous, tomentose. Heads forty or more, a dense depressed 
glomerule, sessile in the centre of the involucriform tuft of leaves, 
fuscous. The hyaline scales, all but two or three of the outermost, 
subtend flowers. They are much broader than described by Steetz, 
uniformly concave, thin, and hyaline throughout, and they are scarcely 
at all narrowed at the base. 
(To be continued.) 
Contributions to the Botany of WESTERN INDIA ; 
by N. A. DALZELL, Esq., M.A. 
(Continued from p.139.) 
Nat. Ord. CONVOLVULACEZÆ, 
PHARBITIS. 
P. laciniata, mihi; glabra, radice fibrosa, caule filiformi repente vel 
volubili angulato torto, foliis breve petiolatis subseptem-partitis, 
lobis linearibus angustissimis serrato-pinnatifidis dentibus inæqua- 
libus mucronatis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis angulatis clavatis 
1-8-floris folio brevioribus, corolla (alba) Aypocrateriformi 24 poll. 
longa, tubo gracili cylindrico intus purpureo, limbo plano patente, 
antheris exsertis, calycis foliolis oblongis æqualibus mucronatis 
crassis carnosis dorso 3-costatis, costis rugosis, stigmate 3-lobo, 
capsula sphærica 3-loculari loculis dispermis, seminibus fuscis seri- 
ceis.—Crescit in prov. Malwan; fl. Aug. 
I have placed this plant in the genus Pharbitis entirely on account 
of the structure of its capsule, in accordance with Choisy's arrangement, 
