Refugium Botanieum.| | September, 1869. 
TAB. 155. 
Natural Order ComposiTZ. 
Tribe EvuparToric&. 
Genus Evpatrorium, Linn. 
EK. Werxmannianum (Regel et Kornicke Gartenfl. 1867, p. 260, t. 555). 
Frutex levis ramis elongatis rectis copiose ramosis, foliis ovato- 
oblongis distincte petiolatis acutis leviter inciso dentatis basi del- 
toideo-cuneatis firmis glabris nitide viridibus, floribus in paniculam 
latam subcorymbosam dispositis, pedicellis gracilibus erectis leviter 
griseo-pubescentibus, bracteis minimis subulatis, involucris cylin- 
draceo-campanulatis eximbricatis, foliolis 6—8 ligulatis obtusis sub- 
biseriatis, floribus in capitulum 6—8 involucro duplo longioribus. 
A native of South America, the exact country not known. 
An erect copiously-branched shrub several feet high. The 
whole plant, except the pedicels, quite glabrous; the branches 
woody, slightly compressed, green, in exposure tinged with 
purple. Leaves in numerous opposite pairs on flattened chan- 
nelled petioles three to four lines long, the blade ovate-oblong, 
acute, distantly inciso-dentate, the base entire, broad-cuneate, 
texture subcoriaceous, firm, the upper surface a shining moderate 
green, the lower rather paler with the midrib in relief. Flowers 
in ample terminal subcorymbose panicles four to six inches’ 
across. Ultimate pedicels erect, slender, shghtly gray-downy, one 
line to three lines long, subtended by minute subulate bracts. 
Involucre between cylindrical and campanulate, two lines deep, 
consisting of six to eight unequal subbiserial blunt lgulate phyl- 
laries, slightly downy on the back. Flowers cream-coloured with 
a reddish tinge, not more than six or eight in a head, more 
than twice as long as the involucre. Pappus of very numerous 
subequal gray scabrous bristles which slightly exceed the invo- 
lucre. 
Tab. 155.—1, a single capitulum ; 2, a separate flower; 3, ray of pap- 
pus: all magnified—J. G@. B. 
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A plant of very free growth and easy cultivation. It flowers 
freely when planted in the open ground during the summer 
months, and for the winter treatment it only requires a slight 
protection from the frost. I received the plant from the garden 
of the late Mr. William Borrer, of Henfield.—W. W. S. 
