ICONES FLANTARUM. 43 
Has. St. Helena, Diana’s Peak, and Cabbage-tree ridge by Caxon’s-gate 
Telegraph, Burchell, etc. Flowering November, February. ‘‘ White Cab- 
bage-tree,” Burchell. “He Cabbage-tree, ”” Melliss 
rbor parva, robusta, 8-12 ped. alta, ramulis relies crassitie digiti mi- 
noris creberrime cicatricatis glabris. "Folia versus 0 ramulorum con- 
ferta, 4-7 poll. onga, 0 vato-oblonga v. lanceolata, + irregulariter 
nata, viridia (siccitate brunnea), crassiuscula, be en nervosa, apicibus sub- 
acutis barbellatis non sphacelatis, marginibus angus mbranaceis. Corolla 
alba, radii ligula late obovato-oblonga, apice 3-dentata, “disei lobis revolutis 
3-nerviis eens ibus, tubo basi indurato. Anthere semi-exserte, aaa ivo 
apice brevi, omnino “ecaudate. tylus gracilis, et fusiformis, ramis re 
lutis brie apice obscure papillosis. he cto vis, multiserialis, Fisste 
pilis rigidiusculis seaberulis. Achenium + ei iscsi, anguste oblongum, 
, utrinque attest creberrime alte costatu 
Certainly a totally different genus from the Lachanodes prenanthi tate and 
far more different than that is from any other Senecionideous genus; nor, in- 
deed, except in Senecio itself, do I find any near affinity for it. Trot Lacha- 
nodes it differs in habit, in the terminal erect crowded corymbose panicle, the 
short en gence the involuere much thickened at the base, its many leaflets, 
the ma -flowers, woody scarcely inflated base of the corolla-tube, 
rolla- eg and in 
thers ; meanwhile I have sedapiad Endlicher’s sectional name of Pladaroxylon 
i ionideous g 
Fig. 1. Catalan. 2. Ray-flower. 3. Arms of its a 4. Disk-flower. 5. Pappus 
hair. 6. Stamen. 7. Arms of its ie :—all aged 
Prate 1056. 
ASTER GUMMIFERUS, Hook. /. 
Composit#, § ASTEROIDER. 
gummiferus ; arbor parva, gummifera, ramulis lignosis ultimis 
hispidulis, foliis nari anit die obtusis in petiolum brevem basi 
nodoso-incrassatum angustatis grosse serratis coriaceis, subtus et basin versus 
