418 SYNGENESiA suPERFUJA. Artimlsia. 



A native of the Molucca Islands ; the branches and 

 branchlets very numerous, smooth and drooping elegantly, 

 with numerous minute flowers, pointing directly to the earth. 

 Scales of the calyx roundish, membranaceous and smooth ; 

 the receptacle of the florets convex and naked. 



2. A. pnnlculata. Roxh. 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves from bipinnate to simple ; leaflets 

 linear, and often gashed. Panicle terminal, loose. Flowers 

 long-pedicelled, erect; florets twenty, all tubular and five- 

 toothed, about half of them are hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 conical, naked. 



The native place of this plant I cannot well ascertain. It 

 was introduced into the Botanic garden from the interior 

 parts of Bengal, and in three years it has only attained to the 

 height of one or two feet, and is a very slender, sub-erect, 

 flaccid, thinly branched, under shrub. Flowering time Fe- 

 bruary. 



Leaves alternate, petioled, from simple to pinnate, and 

 bipinnatifid, being less divided towards the top, till they 

 become simple amongst the flowers. Leaflets linear, often 

 pinnatifid, or toothed, somewhat hoary, as are also the young 

 shoots. Panicle terminal, composed of slender, alternate, sub- 

 erect, leafy racemes. Floicers numerous, erect, small, sub-glo- 

 bular, yellow, generally one, rarely two, or three, on slender, 

 filiform, axillary pedicels. Calyx ; leaflets unequal, oblong, 

 concave, villous. Corollets twenty or more; about half her- 

 maphrodite in the centre, the other half female in the circum- 

 ference ; all are tubular with a five-cleft border. In the her- 

 maphrodite ones the segments are recurved ; in the female 

 ones incurved. Stigmas very large, somewhat laciniate, and 

 truncated. Receptacle conical, naked. 



The smell of the plant is somewhat like that o( southern, 

 wood, but less powerful. 



