394 Dr Graliam*s List of Bare Plants, 



Podotlieca gnaphalioidcs. Gmh, 



P. gnaphalioides, foliis lanceolato-linearibus, involucro imbricate, co- 

 nico, corollis breviori, squamis inajqualibus, exterioribus ovato-lan- 

 ceolatis, lierbaceis, extrorsuin glanduloso-pubescentibus, introrsum 

 lauatis, interioribus linearibus, scariosis. 



Description. — Annual. Stem much branched at the base ; branches ge" 

 nerally subdivided at the top, glanduloso-pubescent, enlarged like an 

 obverse hollow cone under the capitulum. Leaves scattered, lanceolate- 

 linear, smaller upwards, entire, glanduloso-pubescent on both sides, 

 3 -nerved, the middle rib strong, the edges reflexed. Capitula solitary, 

 terminal. Involucre (1^ inch long) conical; scales adpressed, imbricated, 

 the outer ones herbaceous, ovato-lanceolate, acute glanduloso-pubes- 

 cent on the outside, woolly within, the inner ones linear, coriaceous, 

 glabrous, except at the apex where they are woolly, and where some 

 of them are herbaceous and lanceolate. Receptacle convex, tubercled, 

 without hairs or chaffs. Flowers yellow, longer than the involucre, 

 and forming upon its apex a spheroidal head. Corolla tubular, gla- 

 brous ; tube very slender, dilated at the apex ; limb 5 -partite, spread- 

 ing, segments ovate, blunt. Stamens included, inserted below the di- 

 lated portion of the tube ; anthers with some soft waved hairs at their 

 base, and an ovate subacute free appendage at the apex of each. Ger- 

 men white, oblong, hairy, with an oblique oblong pit at the base, 

 from the centre of which is protruded a slender and short but firm 

 thread by which it is attached to the outside of the base of the cor- 

 responding conical tubercle on the receptacle. Style exserted, bifid, 

 segments revolute. Stigmata blunt. Pappus of 5 scales, united at 

 the base, much attenuated upwards, nearly as long as the tube of the 

 corolla, pluntose. 

 This very distinct species was raised at the nursery of Messrs James 

 t Dickson and Sons, Edinburgh, in 1841, from a collection of Swan 

 River seeds communicated the year before by Mrs Murray, Lintrose. 

 It flowered abundantly in July and August, but ripened no seed. It 

 has, however, been struck from cuttings by Mr Kelly, the intelligent 

 superintendent of that establishment. 



Rhododendron anthopogon. Don, 



R, anthopogon, ramulis pubescentibus, ferrugineo-lepidotis ; foliis sera- 

 pervirentibus, ellipticis, subtus dense lepidotis demum ferrngineis ; 

 capitulis strobuliformibus ; floribus pentandris ; calyce 5-partito, 

 segmentis oblongis ; corolla hypocrateriformi, limbo 5-partito, seg- 

 mentis subrotundis, fauce lanatis ; staminibus inclusis. 



Rhododendron anthopogon, Don, Fl. Nepal. 153. Wall. Cat. No. 

 759. Boyle Illust. t. 64. DC. Prodr. 7725. 



Description. — Shrub (in the specimen described 15 inches high, 18 

 inches in diameter) much branched, compact ; branches pubescent, 

 and covered with brown scales. Leaves (1^ inch long, ^ inch broad) 

 collected towards the extremities of the branches, petiolate, elliptical, 

 entire, coriaceous, evergreen, mucronulate, densely covered below with 

 scales which at first ai"e pale green but soon become rusty, glabrous 

 dark green and shining above, having a strong middle rib, and a few 

 oblique sparingly reticulated veins channelled above; petiole erect, 

 rounded on the back, channelled in front, scaly like the branches. Capi- 

 Uda terminal, encased by a few large ovate keeled rusty ciliated bracts, 



