A suffrutescent evergreen, 2-3 feet high, upright, smooth, — 
viscous, with a round branching pale brown stem; branches _ 
remarkably upright and straight, white, angular, flexuose, _ 
leafy, one-flowered. Leaves far apart, scattered, upright, 
patent, oboyately oblong, mucronately pointed, reticulately 
veined, porously viscid, serrulately roughed at the edoe. — 
and generally indented at the upper portion by several sharp 
pointed teeth, sometimes round the whole edge, stemclasp- 
ing, decurrent by three nerves, the two lobules at the base _ 
growing by the inner edge to the stem, considerably farther 
down than where the midrib is attached: floral ones about — 
three, of a-rather different form, ovate or oblong-lanceo- 
late. - Flowers bright yellow, terminal, nearly sessile, so- 
litary. Calyx of numerous leaflets in several ranks, herbas 
ceous, squarrosely imbricated, suffused more copiously with 
viscous secretion than any other part of the plant; leaflets 
close at the base, lanceolately linear, externally a little 
convex, lower ones mucronate narrower spreading and re- 
eurved, upper upright slightly patent, innermost mem- 
branous, whitish, applied closely to the flower. Ray of one — 
rank, with many florets, twice as long as the calyx; tube _ 
of the florets long, lamina or blade with a double plait, in- 
dented at the end with two minute teeth: germen turbinately 
oblong, five-nerved, angular: pappus sessile, awnlike, fea~ 
thered, of few pieces, unequal, slightly incurved: stigmas 4 
2, linear, protruded above the tube. Disk with very pale — 
yellow florets, equal to the calyx, smooth, with small up- 
right pointed teeth: anthers enclosed; pollen yellow: stio~ 
mas two, linear, extruded their whole length: germen like 5 | 
that of the ray. Receptacle flat, pitted, roughened over by 
the dentately extended margins of the small excayations or 
pits in which the germens stand. x itatiea 
_ The drawing was taken in February at the nursery of 
Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, King’s Road, Par- 
'son’s Green, Fulham. Cultivated m the greenhouse, and 
is in fiower most part of the year. Requires no particular 
attention in the culture of it. ' 
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“"*q A floret of the disk. 6 A floret of the ray, ~c The calyx dissected 
¥ertically, showing the naked receptacle of the flower, ‘ 
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