nata it differs altogether in the form of the lip and the size of 
the flowers, which are collected in dense spikes, and not in 
slender branched ones. As the temperature of New Zealand 
is rarely above 7 <5°, that circumstance will have to be attended 
to in its cultivation. 
89. ASTER cabulicus. 
A. cabulicus ; fruticosus, ramis ferrugineo-pubescentibus, foliis lanceolatis 
brevi-petiolatis denticulatis subpubescentibus subtus pallidis, floribus 
corymboso-paniculatis, involucri squamis ovato-linearibus apiculatis, radio 
vigintifloro Receptaculum convexum, areolatum. Acliaenium imma- 
turum compresso-tetragonum pubescens. Pappus serie simplici, pilifor- 
mis, subsequalis, scabriusculus. Antherse ecaudatae. Stigma exacte 
Keerlice. 
Almost the only plants which the Cahul expedition has 
yet added to our gardens are the pretty Erysimum Perofskia- 
num and this ; the seeds of which were received by the 
Horticultural Society from William Griffith, Esq. now Super- 
intendent of the Botanic Garden, Calcutta. It forms a small 
half-shrubby bush, quite hardy, with willow-like rugose leaves, 
smelling something like wormwood, and flowers, at first 
white, afterwards becoming pale lilac, and resembling those 
of an American Aster. Although not referable to any of the 
sections admitted by DeCandolle into that genus, it does not 
appear in any way distinguishable, unless the ripe fruit, at 
present unknown, should afford grounds of distinction. 
90. STENOMESSON aurantiacum. Herbert. 
s. aurantiacum ; spatha sesquiunciali perstanter pallide virescente,pedunculis 
insequalibus longiore, genuine viridi, tubo gracili f unciali vel ultra in- 
ferne subvirenter pallidiore superne Jg- unc. lato aurantiaco, limbo auran- 
tiaco semunciali, laciniarum marginibus undulatis, corona brevi, sinubus 
edentatis, filamentis % unc. limbo semunciam stylo brevioribus. Var. 1. 
Spatiis interstamineis repandis. Pancr. aurantiacum Humb. Kunth. 1. 
2b0. Chillo in prov. Quito ( ipse non vidi). Yar. 2. Spatiis interstami- 
neis acute incisis. Ex Quito ; Spofforthicc floruit. W. H. 
91. STENOMESSON eustephioides. Herbert. 
S. eustephioides ; spatha unciali marcescente pedunculos vix superante, ger- 
mine viridi, tubo £ unciali vel ultra infeme pallidiore basi virente cam- 
panulato ^ unc. la.to aurantiaco, limbo semunciali aurantiaco marginibus 
pallidioribus, spatiis coronae interstamineis acute incisis, filamentis alatis 
