surmounted with a pappus, which is covered with shortish hairs. Style 
at first (as well as the stigma) concealed within the anther-tube, after- 
wards exceeding it in length, white. Stigma bipartite, segments linear, 
spreading, extremities obtuse. 
Achenium (immature) oblong. Pappus plumoso-pilose. 
A native of Chili, whence seeds were communicated to our 
garden by Mr Cruikshanks. The plant blossomed in the 
months of August and September in the greenhouse, and pre- 
sented, in that state, both in its leaves and flowers, a striking 
similarity to those of Senecio elegans. 
On a more accurate inspection of the structure of the blos- 
soms, however, it will be at once seen that the plant cannot be- 
long to the same order of the Class Syngenesia ; the florets 
being by no means in any part tubular, nor do they accord with 
the generality of the ligulate florets of the Nat. Ord. Compo- 
sitce ; for here the corolla is distinctly two-lipped, one lip, in- 
deed, being considerably smaller than the other, and soon be- 
coming revolute, coloured, and wrinkled. 
Of a considerable number of plants belonging to this fa- 
mily, having the peculiarity of structure just mentioned, La- 
GASCA and De Candolle, about the same time, constituted 
a tribe, distinct from the other Compositce, but whose place 
was between the Cichoracece and Cinarocephalce ; the former 
giving it the name of Lahiatiflorce ; the second that of Chce- 
nanthophoroe. Most of the genera of this tribe are included 
either in the Mutisice of Cassini, or else in his Nassauvice ; 
to the latter our present plant belongs. That author, guided 
by natural affinities, has, with great propriety, placed the 
Nassauvice next to Senecionece. 
Fig. 1. Section of the receptacle and involucre. Fig. 2. Scale of the invo- 
lucre. Fig. 3. Scale of the receptacle. Fig. 4. Young floret, the lips 
not fully expanded. Fig. 5. Floret from the centre of the receptacle. 
Fig. 6. Floret from the circumference. Fig. 7- Anthers. Fig. 8. Young 
fruit. Fig. 9, Portion of the pappus. — All more or less magnified. 
