420 sYNGENESiA svPERFLUA. Artwiisia, 



that soft white down on the under side of its leaves, of which 

 the moxa is made in those countries. 



4. A. vulgaris. Willd. iii. 1845. 



Herbaceous, erect. Leaves pinnatifid, flat, gashed, tonien- 

 tose underneath. l?acemcs simple, recurved. F/owers erect; 

 ray five-flowered. 



Naga or Naga dona, or Dona, its Sanscrit names, which are 

 also its vulgar Hindoostanee, and Bengalee names. Found 

 common in gardens in Bengal, where it flowers and ripens its 

 seed during the dry season. 



5. A. parviflora. Buck. 



Herbaceous, with horizontal, slender branches. Tender 

 parts hoary. Leaves simple, inferior, cuneate, with a dentate 

 apex and some linear stipuliform segments at the base. 

 Flowers ovate, drooping. Hermaphrodite forets about eight 

 in the centre. Female ones three-toothed, and more numerous 

 in the ray. Receptacle naked. 



A native of Nepal, from thence the seeds were sent to this 

 garden by Dr. Buchanan, where the plants blossom in 

 May. 



Root perennial. Stem ascending in an oblique direction. 

 Branches many, spreading or drooping, very slender and 

 slightly pubescent. Branchlets numerous, short, diverging, 

 flower-bearing. Leaves sessile, wedge-shaped, with linear, 

 stipuliform segments from the base, the inferior ones with a 

 rounded, lobate-dentate apex ; the superior ones with a three 

 or five-cleft apex ; those of the floral branchlets most minute 

 and entire. Flowers numerous, pedicelled, very minute, ovate, 

 drooping, green. Calyx of a few, large, (for the size of the 

 flowers) oval leaflets. Florets from six to ten ; hermaphrodite 

 ones five-cleft in the centre, and more minute, obscurely 

 three-toothed. Female ones in the ray. Receptacle convex, 

 naked. The whole plant inodorous. 



