Gardneriane. N. O. Compos.-Mutisiacez. 
TABS. DXIX.— DXX. 
BowMANIA VERBASCIFOLIA. Gardn. 
Bowmania verbascifolia. Gard. in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot., 
vol. 2, ined. Herb. Bras. n. 5797. 
Has. Bushy places, at the summit of the Organ Mountains, 
Brazil. Fl. April. 
This very fine composite plant has been selected by Mr. 
Gardner to commemorate the name of his excellent friend, the 
late J. E. Bowman, Esq., of Manchester, a gentleman no less 
known by his botanical, than his geological labours. He con- 
siders it to hold an intermediate station between Triwis and 
Chabrea, differing from this latter in having an involucre of 
several series of scales, a deeply alveolate and pilose receptacle; 
and a pappus of more than one series, and from the former in its 
possessing a many-flowered capitulum, and a foliaceous involucre 
of several series. 
The full generic character and description will very shortly 
appear in the second volume of the London Journal of Botany. 
Fig.1. Ploret. f. 2. Stamens. f.3. Apex of style. f+ 
Achenium. /f. 5. Hairs from the pappus :—magnified. 
