DAMPIERAS)- - . ass 
ones are five-lobed or angled. The flowers small, with a few short 
whitish yellow rays, shorter than the involuere; July. P. edulis is a 
tall, coarse-growing, hardy perennial, with yellow flower-heads; cultivated 
in the Andes for the sake of its edible Dahlia-like tubers. P. pyramidalis 
is a rapid-growing, tree-like perennial, with woody stems 10 feet high; 
large heart-shaped leaves, broader than long, and cymes of yellow-rayed 
flower-heads with brown disks; flowering from July to October. Half- 
hardy. Introduced from Columbia(1867). P. Uvedaliais a hardy perennial 
herb, growing to a height of from 4 to 10 feet, with palmately lobed 
lower leaves, the upper ones broad-oval, angled and toothed, almost stalk- 
less. The flower-heads have very large outer involucral scales, ten to 
fifteen yellow narrow rays; September. — Introduced from the United 
States (1699). Polymnias will be found most serviceable in the South of 
England, where they are used in sub-tropical gardening. They are pro- 
pagated by divisions of the roots, by cuttings, and by seeds. Seeds 
should be sown in heat at the very beginning of the year, and the seed- 
DAMPIERAS 
Natural Order GooDENOVIE2. Genus Dampiera 
Damprera (named in honour of Wm. Dampier, the circumnavigator). 
greenhouse shrubs 
A genus of about thirty species of alternate-leaved “a 
or under-shrubs, few of which are cultivated here. The calyx is very 
small, the corolla two-lipped, an 
cohering. The style ends in a little a at the 
stigma. They are all natives of Australia. 
: : AMPIERA BROWNII (Brown's). Stem sub-shrubby, 
1 to 2 feet high. Leaves oval, 
clothed with black 
Oe ceaaaenns erect, somewhat woolly, 
rough above. Flowers blue, the corolla densely 
feathery hairs; July. Introduced 1824. Perennial. oon ; 
The most suitable soil for Dampiera 18 ® — 
of turfy loam, peat, and sand. Propagation 3 effecte 
by cuttings taken in spring, and struck in similar soil, under a bell- 
glass. : 
Cultivation. 
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