Dr Graham's Description of New or Rare Plants. 373 



attractive in cultivation, tlumgh Sloan attrtt)utes to it many virtues lb 

 very different cases, concluding the whole by stating, that " it is a re^ 

 inuUy against all sorts of cold, lor it is hot and bitter." 



Elephantopus sericcus. ..jv.no 



K. sericetts »• caule piloso ; foliis ovato-oblongis, subacutis, bM^ kttWi^atis, 



crenato-sermtis, supra leviusculis, glabriusculis, subtus mollissime pi- 



loso-sericeis ; paniculo diifuso ; bracteis Rubcordato ovatis, acutis ; in- 



volucri foliolis exterioribus subulatis, interioribus tiibani corotloe se- 



'; quantibus. ' ' 



Descuiptiok — Rooi perennial. Stem (2 inches high) erect, short, branch. 



-uisetl, leafy, covere<l with white erect hairs. Leaves (5 inches long, 1^ 



-^"' broad) ovato-oblong, spreading, urienually crenato-serrate, attenuated at 



' 1 the base, and at the insertion stem-clasping, dark green, and slightly co- 



'\' vered with soft down above, below thickly covered, esiiecially on the 



veins (which are numerous and prominent) and their primary divisions, 



with coarse yet soft somewhat silky hairs; middle rib very strong and pro- 



''•• minent on both sides, especially below; leaves on the flower-stalk few, 



' "^- scattered, gradually smaller ui)wards. Flowerslalk (I ^ foot high) terminal, 



' '' erect, slightly flexuose, leafy, tapering, panicled, pubescent. Panicle loose, 



the branches rising from the axils of the diminished leaves, erect. Bractem 



'i» ' «ubcordato-ovate, acuminate, single, except froni the confluence oifseveral 



"^il capitula at the extremities of the branches. Involucre abqut 4.flowered, 



of few leafets, the four inner subequal, lanceolate, 3-nerved, membranous 



at the edges, very slightly pubescent on the outside, hard ajnd chaffy, 



outer leafets much snorter than these four, subulate. Corolla amall, 



white, glabrous ; tube equal in length to the involucre, curved, very 



^'' slender, slightly dilated at the throat ; limb 5-pai ted, segments secund, 



,' felightly callous at the apices. Pistil subexserted ; germen green, ob- 



orate. Pappus of 5 simple hairs, very slightly dilated at the base. 

 This species was raised from seed sent to the Botanic Garden by Dr Krous 

 of Dominica in 1829. It has been added to Dr Hooker's herbarium from 

 St Vincent and Trinidad. It is distinguished from E. Martii by the form 

 of its leaves ; by its much less hairy flower-stalk ; by the form of inflo- 

 rescence; by the greater length of the involucra; and by the narrow 

 more acuminate bractese. I think it is distinguished from E. mollis of 

 Kunth, by the form of the bracteoe, and of the outer leafets of the invo. 

 lucre; by its leaves being nearly even on the upper surface; and by 

 their being only moderately attenuated at the base, certainly lesa so 

 than in some other species of the genus. 



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