IGONES PLANTARUM. 41 
guste 2-alatum et antic dio carinatum, lateribus in setas 2 subulatas 
rigidas — — productis. Cotyledones oblonge, obtuse, planiuscule, 
radicula te 
and described its structure, makes no allusion to its affinities ; nor can they 
be well cstv till ‘the sole of Melampodinee and Helianthee ave revised. 
D. Hoo 
Fig. 1. maine floret. 2. Apex of achene. 3. Corolla laid open, wep the stami- 
nodes. 4. Male floret. 5. Detached stamen. 6. Style-branches of sa 
. Prate 1054, 
LACHANODES PRENANTHIFLORA, Burch. : 
Compositm, § SENECIONIDEZ. 
Lachanodes, DO.—Cuapitulum homogamum, floribus ad 5 albis tubu- 
losis 5-lobis hermaphroditi s. Involucrum angustum ; foliola ad 5, 1-serialia, 
anguste poate acuta, pie non sphacelata, c alyculat Rece eptaculum 
orolie tubus recat stacy basi 
dilatatus ; Kinhies mau Tobi elongati, lneaes, revoluti, 3-n 
ee li rami elon- 
i, fili Sains pluriserialis, pilis 
rigidulis scaberulis albis. Achenium ars angulatum, obscure costa- 
um.—Arbor parva, ramulis robus la alterna, petiolata, dentata. Ca- 
pitula ix paniculas axillares jovisvaliliter nee le pendula. 
L. prenanthifiora, Burch. n DC. Prod, vi. 442.—Mikania arborea, 
Roxb. in Beatson’s St. ifelena Tracts, 313 fein Kunth). Solidago Leuga- 
dendron, Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. 
Has. St. Helena, on ae s Peak, and on Sandy Bay ridge, alt. 2-2500 
. Flowering October to February. Red or purple Cabbage-tree, Burchell. 
“ He” and “ She Cabbage-tree,” Roxburgh 
rbor parva, 5-15 ped. alta, trunco crasso, cortice pallido, ligno molli, 
ramis tee ultimis rubro- poland robustis fragilibus. Folia apices versus 
ramulorum sparsa, magnitudine valde varia, in plantis junioribus subsessilia, 
prtirte rin oe 1-2-pedalia in adultis 2—5-pollicaria, in petiolam brevem 
v. subeequilongum angustata, obovato-oblonga, obtuse irregulariter dentata, 
osula, superne am 2 nitida, sabi subfurfuraceo-tomentosa v. glabrata, 
leete viridia, costa purpurea, juniora subtus albo-lanata. Capitula ¢ Jog longa, 
