PLATE 2717. 
SCALESIA PEDUNCULATA, Hook. ff. 
Composirz, Tribe HELIANTHOIDE. 
S. pedunculata, Hook. f. in Trans. Linn. Soe. xx. p. 211 ; ab omni- 
bus speciebus capitulis discoideis hujus generis hactenus cognitis 
longitudine pedunculorum et magnitudine capitulorum facile distin- 
uitur, 
GaLapacos ARCHIPELAGO; James Island, Charles Darwin, October 
1835. 
Designated a tree by Darwin in a note accompanying the specimen 
in the Cambridge Herbarium. This is mentioned because this species 
is described by Hooker in the place cited as Hriecabrio We have 
seen no other specimens.—W. Borring Hems_z 
Fig. 1,a pale seen from the inside; 2, a flower; 3, anthers; 4, stigma. All en- 
larged. 
