8 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
of itin Van Houtte's Flore des Serres, where there is an excellent figure of the species. It has not yet flowered. The stem 
i being so short as to be almost concealed by the head of leaves ; nothing, it is added, can be more 
is described as r 
beautiful either in the stove itself, or in a vase in a sitting-room warm enough to keep it in health, and sufficiently 
lighted, : 
466. COMMELYNA SCABRA. Bentham. A half-hardy perennial plant, with glaucous wavy 
leaves, and large dull purplish brown flowers. Native of Mexico. Belongs to the Order of 
Spiderworts. Introduced by M. Allardt of Berlin. 
(Fig. 234.) : 
A very singular herbaceous plant, first found by Mr. Ehren- PUR 
berzin the North of Mexico, and afterwards by Hartweg. It 
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leaves are sessile, lanceolate, stiff, cartilaginous at the ed e; 
covered all over with fine asperities, with purplish sheaths 
fringed at the orifice. The spathes are almost cordate, folded 
together, downy, with five to ten flowers in each. The petals 
are of a singularly dull purplish brown colour.— Link, Klotzsch 
and Otto, Icones, t. 30. This does very well in a warm border 
467. GRINDELIA GRANDIFLORA. Hooker. A 
hardy biennial, with large showy orange-coloured 
flower-heads. Native of Texas. 
longs to Composites. Intro- 
duced at Kew. 
Raised from seeds sent by Dr. Wright 
from Texas, and quite hardy, flowering in 
the open air as late as November lst 
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leafy and terminated by a flower. Whole plant hard and rigid, 
sub-glaucous. Leaves alternate, sessile, from a broad cordato- 
semiamplexicaul base, lanceolate, gradually tapering to a 
the base coarsely dentato-serrate, the rest nearly entire. 
Flowers (capitula) very large, solitary, on each terminal branch, 
full orange-yellow. Involucre hemispherical, glutinous : scales 
subulate, spreading or even recurved, squarrose, herbaceous, 
Radical florets ligulate, very long, with a slender tubular base 
Ovary obovate, furrowed, bearing one or more sete: style 
with the branches subulate. Florets of the dise tubular, five- 
toothed, of the ovary, as in the ray, setze three to six. A stout i 
plant, making a showy appearance when in flower. Towards autumn the stem 
becomes hard and wood ; after f 
the stem and roots are exhausted and die, showing that the plant is only i i Sao 
ering» 
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