378 Dr Graham's Description of New or Rare Plants. 



falcate, sometimes twisted, coriaceous, stiff, many-nerved, glabrous, acu- 

 leate ; aculei colourless, straight, ascending, rimd, rising from coloured 

 bases. Scape terminal, decumbent, ^ inches long, sparingly branched, 

 round, branches rising from the axils of sheathing pointed bracteis, which 

 (are about an inch long, and) diminish upwards. Inflorescence a corym- 

 bose cyme. Flowers crowded. Perianth campanulate at the base, per- 

 sisting, 6-parted, segments erect, ovato-lanceolate, concave, regular and 

 nearly equal, yellowish-white and smooth within, without greenish-yel- 

 low, and, as well as the scape, base of the bracteae, and pedicels, co- 

 vered with a branching greenish tomentum. Stamens six, inserted into 

 the perianth, filaments adhering to the perianth for the greater part of 

 their length, smooth, slightly connivent, prolonged by the back of the 

 anthers, which are longer than them, and are linear, erect, slightl}' bent 

 backwards, yellow, bilocular, bursting along their edges ; pollen yellow. 

 Pistil single, shorter than the stamens ; stigma of three short suberect 

 points; style single, rigid, smooth, persisting, slightly tapering ; germen 

 half inferior, 3-locular, conical and empty above the perianth ; ovules 

 numerous in each loculament, round, attached to a central receptacle, 

 which is undivided and prominent in each loculament, confined to that 

 part of the germen below the perianth. 

 Our specimen of this plant was received from Robert Barclay, Esq. Bury- 

 hill, in 1828, and flowered in January and February last. 



Elephantopus Martii. 



E. Martii i caule ramoso, pilose, folioso ; foliis subsessilibus, undulatis, 

 rugosis, superne hispidis, subtus tomentoso-pubescentibus, serrato- 

 crenatis, denliculatis, inferioribus spatbulato-oblongis, breviter atte- 

 nuatis, superioribus lanceolatis. 

 Elephantopus scaber. Herb. Martii. 



Description Stem., including the flowering-stalks, in our plants, which 



are still growing, ten inches high, but in native specimens much more, 

 herbaceous, erect, branched, flexuose, covered with simple, spreading, 

 rather harsh hairs, which are most numerous on the younger branches. 

 Loiver leaves (6 inches long and 2 broad) spathulato-oblong, shortly atte- 

 nuated, decurrent along short petioles, stem clasping, corrugated, undu- 

 late, serrato-crenate, pubescent on both sides, pubescence harsh above, 

 soft and much more dense below ; middle rib very large, prominent on 

 both sides, especially below, flattened or slightly channelled above, pri.. 

 mary veins very prominent below, oblique, with transverse prominent 

 reticulations terminating in little mucros, which in the lower leaves are 

 in tiie bottom of the indenations ; upper leaves lanceolate, and diminish- 

 ino- upwards, but otherwise similar to the lower. Bracteai ovate, sessile, 

 similar in colour and structure to the leaves, solitary, or, at the extremities 

 only, three together from the confluence of three capitula. Flowers all her- 

 maphrodite, capitate, axillary or terminal, sessile. Involucra chaffy, im- 

 bricated, generally four-flowered ; chaffs few, imbricated, lanceolate, mii- 

 cronate, three-nerved, keeled, erect, entire, or serrated towards the apex, 

 green, scariose at the edges, pubescent on the outside, smooth and shining 

 within, longer than the bracteae, the four innermost subequal, and twice 

 as long as the others. Corolla small, purplish-white, tubular, smooth ; 

 tube longer than the involucrum, curved, slender ; limb S-parted, seg- 

 ments secund, equal, linear-lanceolate. Stamens shorter than the limb ; 

 filaments slender; anthers linear, unconnected at least after expansion. 

 Sti(/ma hairy, bi-parted, revolute. Style exserted, filiform, smooth ex- 

 cepting near the sJgma. Germen green, obovate. Achenia obconical, 

 with ten smooth ribs, interstices pubescent. Pappus of few (10?) rough 

 simple hairs, dilated and slightly ciliated at their bases, shorter than the 

 tube of the corolla. 

 Seeds of this plant were sent to me from Mr Harris at Rio Janeiro by 

 Caj)tain Graiiam, late of his Majesty's Packet Service, in April 1 829. It 

 has been ke])t in the stove, and flowered in February and March last. It 



