Artimisia, SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 421 
6. A, elegans, Roxb. 
Annual, erect, very ramous, smooth. Leaves of the young 
plants many-parted, of the old ones nearly simple, and fas- 
cicled, all are filiform, and smooth, Racemes panicled, 
Flowers globular, pedicelled, nodding, Female florets twelve 
in the ray, five-cleft, ‘ 
This elegant plant was sometime ago received from Gene- 
ral Martin at Lucknow, under the name Abbuttna, and is 
now, October, in full blossom in the Botanic garden; many 
have also been reared from seed sent by the same gentle- 
man. 
Stem while young straight, becoming less so by age and 
then woody. Branches numerous, expanding, with their 
extremities often nodding; whole height from three to six 
feet. Leaves on the stem of young plants multifid with the 
divisions filiform, and smooth ; on old plants and flower-bear- 
ing branchlets fascicled, filiform, undivided, perfectly smooth, 
and very small, being only about a quarter or half an inch 
long, and as fine asa horse hair. lowers numerous, pedi- 
celled, small, yellow, round; the whole extremities of the 
branches forming elegant, nodding panicles, with the flowers 
pointing to the earth. Ca/yx of several roundish, smooth, 
concave scales, lorets, about twelve hermapbrodite ones 
in the disk, and nearly as many, small, five-cleft females in 
the circumference. Siyle in the hermaphrodite ones shorter 
than the florets, with a two-lobed, funnel-shaped_ stigma in 
the females. Jones than the florets, with the stigma two-cleft, 
andsrarolate. 
. The leas y when. braised, emit a faint pleasant odour, 
The plat ularly when young, is uncommonly elegant 
weds in rowed being then straight, with numerous spread- 
ing branches, the extremities thereof forming large, very ra- 
mous, nodding panicles, loaded with numerous, beautiful, 
most minute, sdeeoping:| flowers, sirens 
