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 Cruixsuanxs. 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- 
sitee; 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. 3 
Of a considerable number of plants belonging to this fa- 
mily, having the peculiarity of structure Just mentioned, La- 
Gasca and DE CaNnDOLLE, about the same time, constituted 
a tribe, distinct from the other Composite, but whose place 
was between the Cichoracee and Cinarocephale ; the former 
giving it the name of Labiatiflore ; the second that of Che- 
nanthophoree. Most of the genera of this tribe are included 
either in the Mutisice of Casstnt, or else in his Nassauviee : 
to the latter our present plant belongs. That author, guided 
by natural affinities, has, with great propriety, placed the 
Nassauvie next to Senecionee. - 
Fig. 1. Section of the receptacle and involucre. Fig. 2. Scale of the invo- 
Juere. - 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.—AU more or less magnified. | 
