Piate 2747, 
AINSLIZA ELEGANS, Hensl. 
Composirz. Tribe MurTIsiacez. 
elegans, Hemsl. (sp. nov.) ; inter species scaposas statura majore, 
ioe crassis cordiformibus sreibieie Sossamon tomentosis et inflores- 
centia ramosissima flaccida, distinet 
He perennis, scaposa, erecta, 3-4 ped. alta. Yolia longissime 
petiolata, subcoriacea, maxima absque petiolo 6 poll. longa, ambitu vere 
iformia, apice nunc rotundata nunc acuminata, remote calloso- 
S minusve strigillosa, de rescentia, subtus (in siccis) albo- 
tomentosa vel fere lanata, in venis et ad margines fulvescentia ; petioli 
sque ad 7-8 . longi, teretes, dense fulvo-villosi, pilis longissimis 
diu persstentibusque Scapt graciliusculi, cito glabrescentes, infra 
medium simplices, nudi vel interdum folio unico prediti, supra medium 
nic 1 multiramosam fla m ampliati, ramulis pedunculisque 
gracillimis. Capitula numerosissima, pendula, angusta, 
ari 
lobis Sian: Achenia villosa ; pappisete plumose, corolle tubum 
zequantes 
Cuina : Mengtze, Yunnan, at 7,000 to 8,000 feet, Henry, 9108, 
9108 a 
ern China is the centre of this beautiful _ os the French 
missionaries and Dr. A. Henry between them have ed upwards 
of a dozen at igvame undescribed species. A. elegans, Heal. in some 
respects closely resembles A. ramosa, Hemsl. (Journ. Linn. Soe. xxiii. 
p- aah but the ere has a aks flower-stem and a rigidly erect 
panicle.—W. Bortina J1emsLE 
g. 1, an involucral bract ; 2, a flower; 3, anthers; 4, upper part of the style. 
aa Dien d. 
