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a very obscure species, which was placed by Sir Joseph Hooker, I.e., 

 amongst the dubia. Roxburgh's A. paniculata was referred in Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. iii. p. 325 to A. vulgaris, probably on the strength of the fact that a 

 specimen from Bombay named thus in the Kew Herbarium is actually 

 A. vulgaris. Roxburgh's figure, however, represents exactly the state 

 of A. pollens, which was distributed by Wight under 1463. The 

 leaves as drawn agree perfectly with those of Woodrow's specimens, 



and the involucre shows distinctly the outer bracts longer than the 

 inner. Roxburgh describes the plant as " a very slender, suberect, 

 flaccid, thinly branched under-shrub," which " in three years has only 

 attained to the height of one or two feet." As Wood row's specimens 

 and also Wallich's (Linnean Society's herbarium) are evidently annual, 

 it would appear that A. pall ens may, under favourable conditions, 

 become subperennial, though scarcely gaining in size or strength. 



There is no evidence that A. pollens has been observed in a wild 

 state, and it is very probable that it was introduced into the Dekkan 

 Peninsula, where it is cultivated and used as an offering at certain 

 Hindoo festivals. According to Roxburgh (Hort. Jieng. p. '61), the specie 

 mens grown in the Calcutta Garden, and named by him A. paniculate, 



were communicated by a Mrs. Honeycomb, and supposed to have come 

 from Persia ; in his Flora Indica, I.e., however, he says : " The native 

 place of this plant I cannot well ascertain. It was introduced into the 

 Botanic Garden from the interior of Bengal," whereby he probably 

 means the Circars, the district where Heyne most likely got the 

 specimens which Wallich quotes under Artemisia pollens, 3302 B. 



O. Stapf. 



Yig. 1, a flower-head; 2, a part of the involucre seen from the inside; 3, 4, and 

 5, bracts of the involucre — outer, intermediate, and inner ; 6, an outer, female flower ; 

 7, an inner, male flower ; 8, an anther; 9, upper part of style with stigma. All enlarged. 



