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inflexed. Staminal-crown of 5 conduplicate truncate leaflets; the sides 
ear-like, ovate oblong, acute, with a small, spur-like crest or keel, under 
the apex, at each side. Pollina attenuate upwards. 
A pretty species, with moderately large purple or ‘raspberry and 
cream” flowers. I refer it to Decaisne’s species, of which I have seen 
no authentic specimen, with some hesitation, but, if not the same, it 
must be a very closely allied species. 
Fig. 1, Gomphocarpus truncatus ; the natural size. Fig. 2, back view of the calyx; 
3, side view of a leaflet of the staminal-crown; 4, front view of the same, with the sides 
pulled apart; 5, vertical view of the stigma, invested by the stamens, whose membranous 
points over-lap; 6, an anther; 7, a pair of pollen-masses, affixed to their caudicula and 
gland ; —the latter figures variously magnified. 
LXVIII. DICOMA ZEYHERI, Sond. ( Composite.) 
D. Zeyheri: “‘caule suffruticoso araneoso erecto simplici vel apice 
subramoso, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis oblongisve acutis basi angustatis 
supra glaberrimis reticulato-nervosis subtus albolanatis, capitulis solita- 
riis paucisve ovatis, involucri squamis multiserialibus nitidissimis acumi- 
natis exterioribus patentibus reflexisve, achenio villosissimo.’’—Sond. in 
Linn., vol. xxiii. p. 71. 
Has.—Macallisberg, Burke & Zeyher, No. 1031. (Herb. T. C. D. comm. cl. Hook.) 
Descr.—Perennial. Stem slightly lignescent at base, then herba- 
ceous, 12-18 inches high, simple or divided near the base into several 
simple erect albo-tomentose branches. Leaves 3-4 inches long, 1-14 
inch wide, sessile, but narrowed toward the base, oblong or lanceolate, 
or obovate, acute, with slightly revolute, obscurely denticulate margins, 
glabrous and veiny on the upper, densely coated with white woolliness 
on the under surface; the upper cauline leaves gradually smaller, the 
very uppermost linear-lanceolate, 1 inch long. Heads terminating the 
stem or lateral branches, solitary, scarcely pedunculate ; dracts lustrous 
white (‘‘ everlasting”), dry, imbricated in many rows, ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, and pungent, glabrous, the outer deflexed or recurved, the 
rest erecto-patent. Pappus very white, plumose. Anthers linear, with 
very long, recurvo-hispid tails. Stigma clavate, minutely emarginate. 
Achenia densely hirsuto-villous. 
A very handsome species, allied to D. spectosa, but with much 
broader leaves, much more copious and whiter indumentum and the 
outer scales of the involucre not scattered, bract-like, along the peduncle. 
Fig. 1, Dicoma Zeyheri ; the natural size. Fig. 2, a flower, surrounded by its pap- 
pus; 3, the corolla, removed; 4, apex of one of the bristles of the pappus; 5, a stamen; 
6, apex of the style; more or less magnified. 
LXIX. CORYMBIUM CONGESTUM, E. Mey. ( Composite.) 
C. congestum : “ caule hispido, foltis elliptico-lanceolatis utrinque 
attenuatis submembranaceis utrinque glanduloso-hirtellis, corymbo 
