BARNADESIA ROSEA. 
(Rose-coloured Barnadesia.) 
Class. Order. 
SYNGENESIA. POLYGAMIA jEQUALIS. 
Natural Order. 
COMPOSITE. 
Generic Character. — Capitulum many-flowered, Specific Character.— Plant a shrub. Heads of 
homogamous. Involucre turbinate, much imbricated, | flowers solitary, ovately cylindrical, pubescent, sessile, 
inner scales radiating. Receptacle clothed with slender Florets with an oblong emarginate lip, villous, some- 
piliform, spiral, dense palea?. Florets dissimilar, exte- 
rior ones biligulate, with a broad, four-toothed lip ; 
interior ones filiform, central ones tubulose, five- 
toothed, or all bilabiate. Stamens altogether, or the 
exterior ones only, monadelphous. Achenium turbinate, 
densely clothed with silky down. 
times filiform. Central tubular florets wanting. Fila- 
ments free. Receptacle with the hairs not twisted. 
Pappus rigidly plumose. 
A veky interesting plant, the texture and appearance of whose foliage, and the 
spines upon its branches, render it somewhat like a Pereskia, while the form of its 
leaves, their number, its style of growth and slender branches, their woody nature, 
and numerous spines are forcibly reminding of some of the commoner B etherises, 
Its flowers are at once singular and beautiful, from their structure and bright colour. 
It is the first figured, and perhaps only completely specified member of the 
genus, which comprises several species, natives of South America. Dr. Lindley is 
the author of the specific name, which he published, with a figure of the plant, 
some years since. How, or the period when it was introduced, or the particular 
locality it inhabits, is not recorded. It first flowered in the collection of the Duke 
of Northumberland, at Syon. The authority before mentioned thus speaks of its 
botanical distinctions : — " According to De Candolle, all the species are mona- 
delphous, except B. laxa, and in that plant there is a solitary tubular flower in the 
disk; but here the stamens are not monadelphous, nor is there a solitary tubular 
flower in the disk ; in the place of the latter there is a space which pours forth 
honey in abundance. It also appears that the hairs of the receptacle are not 
twisted spirally as in other Barnadesias, but are soft and straight." 
We have invariably found it indulged with a place in the stove, which perhaps 
most suits it ; but a close greenhouse in the summer months would be sufficient. It 
deserves considerable attention, for, nicely managed, its appearance will repay the 
care expended upon its culture. The freedom of its growth, elegant habit, and 
singular character, so unusual among plants it will require associating with, 
