Artimisia. syngenesia superflua. 421 



6. A. elegans. Roxb. 



Annual, erect, very ranious, smooth. Leaves of tlie young* 

 plants many-parted, of the okl ones nearly simple, and fas- 

 cicled, all are filiform, and smooth. Racemes panicled. 

 JTlowers globular, pedicelled, nodding-. Female florets twelve 

 in the ray, five-cleft. 



This elegant plant was sometime ago received from Gene- 

 ral Martin at Lucknow, under the name Abbuttna, and is 

 now, October, in full blossom in the Botanic garden; many 

 have also been reared from seed sent by the same gentle- 

 man. 



Steyn while young straight, becoming less so by age and 

 then woody. Branches numerous, expanding, with their 

 extremities often nodding; whole height from three to six 

 feet. Leaves on the stem of young plants multifid with the 

 divisions filiform, and smooth ; on old plants and flower-bear- 

 ing branchlets fascicled, filiform, undivided, perfectly smooth, 

 and very small, being only about a quarler or half an inch 

 long, and as fine as a horse hair. Flowers numerous, pedi- 

 celled, small, yellow, round; the whole extremities of the 

 branches forming elegant, nodding panicles, with the flowers 

 pointing to the earth. Calyx of several roundish, smooth, 

 concave scales. Florets, about twelve hermaphrodite ones 

 in the disk, and nearly as many, small, five-cleft females in 

 the circumference. Style in (he hermaphrodite ones shorter 

 than the florets, with a two-lobed, funnel-shaped stigma in 

 the females longer than the florets, with the stigma two-cleft, 

 and re volute. 



The leaves, when bruised, emit a faint pleasant odour. 

 The plant, particularly when young, is uncommonly elegant 

 when in blossom, being then straight, with nunierous spread- 

 ing branches, the extremities thereof forming large, very ra- 

 mous, nodding panicles, loaded with numerous, beautiful, 

 most minute, <lrooping flowers. 



