ICONES PLANTARUM. 45 
Fig. 1. Pigg neriowns 2. Pi 8. Pappus hair. 4, Style-branches. 5. Disk- 
flower. 6. Stamen :—ail magnified. 
* 
Pirate 1057. 
ASTER GLUTINOSUS, Rod. 
Composit”, § AsTEROIDEA. 
A. glutinosus, Rovd. ; fruticosus, ramulis teretibus lignosis apice foliosis 
cum foliis et inflorescentia laxe villosis, foliis alternis obovato-spathulatis 
crenatis rugosis subtus reticulatim venos is, pedunculis terminalibus erectis 
halis paucibracteatis, bracteis linearibus, capitulo late campanulato, in- 
volueri foliolis e a ee pappo_ she acheentis glaberrimis an- 
gustis compressis alte costatis—Roxb. in Beatson’s St. Helena, 303. 
nyza rugosa, Ait. Hort. Kew. iii. 184; excl. syn. ry 2, v.30. Oom iio 
drum rugosum, DC. Prod. vy. 345, 
Has. St. Helena, between Longwood’s and Gregory’s, Burchell. Flower- 
ing March to May. ‘“Scrubwood” and “ Gum-shrub” of the colonists. Also 
as rare in Ascension, Burchell, mss. 
« v. arbor parva, ramosa, lignosa, ramis teretibus sub-3-chotomis pa- 
teatibue, ramulis cicatricibus trapezoideis foliorum delapsorum notatis, ulti- 
mis crassitie enn anserine patentim villosis. Folia 3-14 po 
(petiolo incluso), 7-3 poll. lata, siccitate fusca, patentia, crenata v. dentata, 
tie preecipue villosa, superne glabrata v. gummosa. Pedunculi solitarit 
3 poll. longi, ota Mehra’ villosi; bractee 1 v. 2, lineares, 3} poll. 
eee Capitulum oll. i 
JSoliola numerosa, fesarva. vix squarrosa, glutinosa, ciliata, coriaceo-herbacea. 
Receptaculum subconvexum, papillosum. Flores radii i perplurimi, ligulis re- 
volutis. oo parcus, pilis ineequalibus scaberulis. Achenia pallida, apice 
paulo dilatat 
There 
to the ves Aster, from which it differs in no respec 1 Me the 
heads and narrow subulate recurved savlaen scales, = ae the resent 
plant, and 4. Rowxburghii, Ff. 8 te A erat DC.), and a variety of it ora 
closely allied species.—J, D. H 
Fig. 1. Ray-flower. 2. Hair of pappus. 3. Arms of style. 
m 6. Arms of style :—all magnified. 
4, Disk-fiower. 5. Sta- 
