418 SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. Artimisia. 
A native of the Molucca Islands; the branches and 
branchlets very numerous, smooth and drooping elegantly, 
with numerous minute flowers, pointing directly to the earth. 
Scales of the calyx roundish, membranaceous and smooth ; 
the receptacle of the florets convex and naked. 
2. A. paniculata, Roxb. 
Shrubby, erect. Leaves from bipinnate to simple ; leaflets 
linear, and often gashed. Panicle terminal, loose, Flowers: 
long-pedicelled, erect; florets twenty, all tubular and five- 
toothed, about half of them are hermaphrodite; receptacle 
conical, naked, 
The native place of this plant I cannot well ascertain. It 
was introduced into the Botanic garden from the interior 
parts of Bengal, and in three years it has only attained to the 
height of one or two feet, and is a very slender, sub-erect, 
flaccid, thinly branched, under shrab, Flowering time Fe- 
_ bruary. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, from simple to pinnate, and 
bipinnatifid, being less divided towards the top, till they 
become simple amongst the flowers, Leaflets linear, often 
pinnatifid, or toothed, somewhat hoary, as are also the young 
shoots. Panicle terminal, composed of slender, alternate, sub- 
erect, leafy racemes. Flowers numerous, erect, small, sub-glo- 
bular, yellow, generally one, rarely two, or three, on slender, 
iform, axillary pedicels. Calyx ; leaflets unequal, oblong, 
cave, villous, Corollets twenty or more; about half her- 
maphrodite i in the centre, the other half female in the circum- 
ference ; all are tubular with a five-cleft border. In the her- 
maphrodite ones the segments are recurved; in the female — 
ones incurved, Stigmas very large, somewhat laciniate, and 
truncated, Receptacle conical, naked. 
The smell of the lnk is somewhat like that of ster 
wood, but less ponte 
