PLATE CCCCRAAL 
CMSULIA AXIBBARIS. 
Axillary-flowered Cesulia. 
CLASS XIX. ORD E Red. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA {QUALIS. Tips united. qual Polygamy. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Recerracuium paleaceum, paleis semina in- RECEPTACLE chaffy, with the chaff enveloping 
volventibus, Pappus nullus. Calyx tri- the seeds. Down none. Empalement 
phyllus. three-leaved. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
Cz#svut1a, with alternate lanceolate serrated 
Cxsutta, foltis lanceolatis basi attenuatis ser- | 
leaves attenuated at the base. 
ratis alternis, Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. 1796. 
. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A floret with its seed enveloped by the chaff. 
2. The same divested of its seed and chaff. 
3. The same spread open and magnified. 
4. The seed-bud, pointal, and chaff. 
5. and 6. The same in different states. 
a 
Nove.ty, oddity, and a very unusual appearance in every part, for a syngenesious plant, must in the 
present subject compensate for its trifling flowers. 
Few of our cultivating friends, except those who are the most botanical, will be inclined to add this 
Cesulia to their collections ; although a very rare, and, in many respects, an interesting species 
It was first described and figured by Dr. Roxburgh, as a new genus, and by the name it here bears, 
in his sumptuous work on the plants of the coast of Coromandel, of which country it is a native; 
and it has since been taken up by Professor Willdenow, in his edition of Species Sankaran, and 
has had a new species (the radicans), from Guinea, added to it by that botanist. 
The axillary-flowered Czsulia is quite new in the gardens, and is said to have a perennial root by 
the parting of which we suppose it may be increased; and must be considered as a hot-house plant 
in this country. 
Onur figure was taken from a living specimen, obligingly communicated to us last summer by the 
Marquis of Blandford, from White Knights, Berks; who, we believe, first raised it in this country, 
from East Indian seeds. 
