the intervals, linearly lanceolate, narrow, cuspidate, an 
inch or more in length, dark green above, wrinkled, de- 
pressedly 3-nerved and convex with a deflectent margin; 
underneath araneously woolled and white. Flowers many, 
terminal, cymosely panicled, scarcely bigger than a pea; 
common peduncle long and nearly leafless or with very wide- 
set scattered leaves. Calyx white and purple, scariose, 
leaflets with a green externally woolled unguis, and a shin- 
ing blade or lamina, which is smooth on both sides; outer 
ones ovately oblong, obtuse; ier narrower, with an elon- 
gated unguis and a shorter lamina, woolly at the back and 
entirely white: straggling ones sometimes intrude among 
the florets, like palec or chaffy bractes, and are now and 
then completely lanceolate. Florets yellow, cylindrical, 
shallowly five-toothed. Germen rough, 3 times shorter 
than the florets, straight in the centre of the flower, curved 
in its periphery: plume or pappus feathery, of many rays, 
white, equal to-or rather longer than the florets: stigmas 
unprotruded. Pollen grumous, of a glittering gold-colour, 
accumulated at the orifice of the floret. Receptacle mem- 
branously denticulated. 
The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- 
ley, Brames, and Milne, at Fulham, where the plant was 
kept in the greenhouse, and is found to be of easy culture, 
requiring however to be planted in peat-mould and guarded 
from too much moisture, but above all from the effects of 
fog. ‘The finest plants we have seen are in the Comtesse de 
Vande’s botanical garden at Bayswater. 
