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nata it differs altogether in the form of the lip and the size of 

 the flowers, which are collected in dense spikes, and not in 

 slender branched ones. As the temperature of New Zealand 

 is rarely above 75°, that circumstance will have to be attended 

 to in its cultivation. 



89. ASTER cabulicus. 



A. cabulicus; fruticosus, ratnis ferrugineo-pubescentibus, foliis lanceolatis 

 brevi-petiolatis denticulatis subpubescentibus subtus pallidis, floribus 

 corymboso-paniculatis, involucri squamis ovato-linearibus apiculatis, radio 



vigintifloro Receptaculum convexum, areolatum. Achfenium imma- 



turum compresso-tetragonum pubescens. Pappus serie simplici, pilifor- 

 mis, subsequalis, scabriusculus. Antherse ecaudatae. Stigma exacte 

 Keerlue. 



Almost the only plants which the Cabul expedition has 

 yet added to our gardens are the pretty Erysimum Perofskia- 

 num and this ; the seeds of which were received by the 

 Horticultural Society from William Griffith, Esq. now Super- 

 intendent of the Botanic Garden, Calcutta. It forms a small 

 half-shrubby bush, quite hardy, with willow-like rugose leaves, 

 smelling something like wormwood, and flowers, at first 

 white, afterwards becoming pale lilac, and resembling those 

 of an American Aster. Although not referable to any of the 

 sections admitted by DeCandolle into that genus, it does not 

 appear in any way distinguishable, unless the ripe fruit, at 

 present unknown, should afford grounds of distinction. 



90. STENOMESSON aurantiacum. Herbert. 



^. aurantiacum ; spatha sesquiunciali perstanterpallidevirescentejpedunculis 

 insequalibus longiore, germine viridi, tubo gracili | unciali vel ultra in- 

 ferne subvirenter pallidiore superne -^\ unc. lato aurantiaco, limbo auran- 

 tiaco semunciali, laciniarum marginibus undulatis, corona brevi, sinubus 

 edentatis, filamentis j; unc. limbo semunciam stylo brevioribus. Var. 1. 

 Spatiis interstamineis repandis. Pancr. aurantiacum Humb. Kunth. 1. 

 280. Chillo in prov. Quito {ipse non vidi). Var. 2. Spatiis interstami- 

 neis acute incisis. Ex Quito; SpoffortJiics floruit. W. H. 



91. STENOMESSON eustephioides. Herhert. 



S. enstephioides ; spatha unciali marcescente pedunculos vix superante, ger- 

 mine viridi, tubo f unciali vel ultra inferne pallidiore basi virente cam- 

 panulato | unc. lato aurantiaco, limbo semunciali aurantiaco marginibus 

 pallidioribus, spatiis coronse interstamineis acute incisis, filamentis alatis 



