320 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
climbing shrubs, natives of South America and Brazil. They are 
distinguished by their irregular florets, most of them two-lipped. The 
leaves are alternate, entire, or pinnately-divided, and the heads are 
solitary and terminal. Mutisia wrachnoidea (also known as M. speciosa) 
is a stove climber, with pinnate leaves, and oval-lance-shaped leaflets, 
ending in a long branching tendril. Flower-heads red; July. Introduced 
from Brazil (1824). M. Clematis is a more hardy climber, the angular 
stem reaching a height of from 20 to 30 feet. The compound leaves 
consist of from fourteen to eighteen leaflets, ending in a branched tendril. 
The large flower-heads are of a rich red hue. Introduced from New 
Grenada in 1859. M. decwrrens has several slender, twining stems, and 
lance-shaped, glaucous, tendrilled leaves. The deep orange flower-heads 
measure from 4 to 6 inches across; June to August. Native of Chili. 
M. latifolia has the tall climbing stem furnished with broad leafy wings. 
The leaves are heart-shaped, with spiny teeth, woolly beneath, stalked. 
Flower-heads pink and yellow; August and October. Introduced from 
Valparaiso (1832). Hardy. Mutisias should be grown against a south 
wall in a good loamy soil, The more tender kinds in the border of 
stove or greenhouse. Propagation is effected by taking cuttings, late in 
spring, from the partly-ripened shoots. These should be struck in 
sand with gentle bottom heat and covered with a bell-glass. 
Proust1a (so called in honour of a Spanish chemist named Proust). 
A small genus—only six or seven species—of stove or greenhouse 
shrubs, natives of South America and Mexico. There is only one 
species in cultivation — Proustia pyrifolia, a greenhouse climber 
with leathery, heart-shaped or oval leaves, woolly beneath. Flower- 
heads white, with a beautiful rosy-pink or purple pappus. It was 
introduced from Chili, 1865, and should be treated the same as a green- _ = 
house Mutisia, 
PoLymnta (P. olyhymnia, the name of one of the Muses). A genus ~ 
of about a dozen rough, coarse-growing herbs, shrubs or trees, not so | 
‘much esteemed for their flowers as for their foliage. The leaves are — 
opposite, or the upper ones alternate, often large or deeply lobed. The 
flower-heads are yellow or yellowish, in terminal corymbs, with several 
small bracts, below which are five larger leafy ones. The ray-florets are 
female, producing oval achenes without any pappus-hairs; the disk-florets 
all male. They are all natives of America. The best-known species are: 
: “tae canadensis, a hardy perennial herb, 6 feet high, introduced 
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