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and breadth, and scarcely imbricated. Receptacle hemisphe^ 

 rical, paleaceous, the paleae cuneate, membranous, slightly 

 dotted toward the apex, as long as the florets, to which they 

 closely adhere. Florets all tubular and hermaphrodite, dull 

 greenish yellow, with an inflated throat, which is downy ex- 

 ternally, and a smooth tube tapering down to the ovarium. 

 Anthers 5, cohering, smooth, with rounded brown apices. 

 Ovarium obovate, slightly downy, with a few long glandular 

 hairs about the top. Pappus none. Style filiform, erect, 

 seated on a long obovate discus. Stigma fusiform, two-lobed, 

 hispid externally. 



Notwithstanding the want of beauty in this plant, it is 

 eminently deserving of notice on account of its botanical 

 characters. In so great a degree has it the habit of Euxenia 

 grata of Chamisso, that it would at first sight be taken for a 

 nearly allied species. It differs however essentially both from 

 that genus, and from Ogiera, in having united antherse. M. La 

 Gasca assures me that it is a genuine species of Podanthus, 

 a genus founded by himself upon a shrubby Chilian plant 

 with a similar habit, which has not yet been seen in England, 

 but which differs in having pedicellate florets, and grains with 

 an obscurely denticulated pappus, and also in foliage and 

 inflorescence. 



Nearly hardy, having survived the winter of 1825-6 in an 

 open border, where it forms a small inconspicuous bush. Its 

 branches are destroyed in very severe weather, but fresh 

 shoots spring forth upon the return of summer. Flowers 

 from August till November. Mr. M c Rae gathered specimens 

 in flower in the neighbourhood of Valparaiso in February 

 1825. 



