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KAULFUSSIA AMELLOIDES. 
(amellus-like kaulfussia). 
CLASS. 
SYNGENESIA 
ORDER. 
SUPERFLUA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
COMPOSITE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx simple, equal ; sepals fourteen to sixteen, lanceolate, obtuse, membrana- 
ceously marginate, with a strong blunt midrib, keeled. Corolla rayed. Florets of the ray female, 
copious, close, ligulate, with a filiform pubescent tube, and an oblong or revolute limb, thrice crenate 
at the top. Germen compressed, wedge-shaped, shortly pedicellate, with the pedicel fixed in the 
foveas of the receptacle. Style hardly longer than the tube. Stigma bifid. Pappus none, or a 
fringe of very short hairs. Florets of the disk hermaphrodite, tubularly funnel-shaped, usually 
incurved ; tube pubescent, limb five-parted, spreading. Anthers co-ordinate, connate. Germen as 
in the flowers of the ray. Style the length of the tube of the flowers. Stigma bifid, revolute. 
Pappus plumose. Receptacle naked, prominent, alveolate. 
Specific Character — Plant annual. Stem branching from the base, about six inches high. Branches 
spreading, tortuous, covered with rigid hairs. Leaves alternate, sessile, lanceolate-spatulate, mucro- 
nulate, with very small remote teeth, hairy on both sides. Flowers terminal, pedunculate, slightly 
nodding. Calyx hairy. Florets of the ray blue ; those of the disk deep violet. 
Much attention having been excited, during the present season, to a beautiful 
blue-flowered annual, Br achy come iberidifolia , which is of recent introduction from 
the Swan River settlement, we have thought it desirable to give a figure of one 
which was never, even when it had all the charm of novelty to recommend it, 
sufficiently made known, and has since almost ceased to be cultivated in the 
majority of gardens. 
Kaulfussia amelloides constitutes a portion of the same natural and artificial 
groups as Brachycome , and has flowers which are not very dissimilar in either size 
or shape. But their resemblance does not extend beyond these points. The 
Brachycome is a plant which, as we have lately remarked, is most suitable for 
growing in pots ; its delicate structure not being adapted for exposure, and the 
slenderness and length of its branches rendering it incapable of standing out in 
rainy or windy weather without being broken and damaged. Kaulfussia , on the 
other hand, is of a more robust habit, with partially trailing stems, well calculated 
