Class. 
SYNGENESIA. 
BARNADESIA ROSEA. 
(Rose-coloured Harnadesia.) 
Natural Order . 
COMPOSITE. 
Order. 
POL YG A MI A A5QUALIS. 
Generic Character — Capitulum many-flowered, 
omogamous. Involucre turbinate, much imbricated, 
nner scales radiating. Receptacle clothed with slender 
iliform, spiral, dense palea?. Florets dissimilar, exte- 
ior ones biligulate, with a broad, four-toothed lip ; 
aterior ones filiform, central ones tubulose, five- 
oothed, or all bilabiate. Stamens altogether, or the 
xterior ones only, monadelphous. Achenium turbinate, 
lensely clothed with silky down. 
Specific Character.— -Plant a shrub. Heads of 
flowers solitary, ovately cylindrical, pubescent, sessile. 
Florets with an oblong emarginate lip, villous, some- 
times filiform. Central tubular florets wanting. Fila- 
ments free. Receptacle with the hairs not twisted. 
Pappus rigidly plumose. 
A very interesting plant, the texture and appearance of whose foliage, and the 
pines upon its branches, render it somewhat like a Pereskia, while the form of its 
eaves, their number, its style of growth and slender branches, their woody nature, 
ind numerous spines are forcibly reminding of some of the commoner Berberises, 
[ts 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 
?enus, which comprises several species, natives of South America. Dr. Lindley is 
he 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 
.ocality it inhabits, is not recorded. It first flowered in the collection of the Duke 
)f Northumberland, at Syon. The authority before mentioned thus speaks of its 
ootanical distinctions : — “ According to De Candolle, all the species are mona- 
lelphous, except B. laxa, and in that plant there is a solitary tubular flower in the 
lisk; 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, 
