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alveolate. 
at present unable to say. We regret however to be con- 
strained to publish it under a new generic definition, as 
well on account of our very imperfect knowledge of the 
order to which it belongs, as because our means of deter- 
mining have been confined to an only and not very perfect 
flower. ‘ 
The semiflorets of the ray are bilabiate, having a small 
interior lip facing the large outer one which forms the ray 
of the flower; and of course the plant belongs to the lately 
established tribe of “© Composite: labiatiflore.” Concerning 
its more special affinities we have nothing to offer. 
Drawn at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, in the King’s 
Road, Chelsea. me \ = 4 
Mr. Brown has native samples collected by Dr. Mackrel 
and Mr. Bowie. asi i 
‘A weak leafy stragglingly branched shrub about three 
feet high. Leaves stiff, thickish, numerous, alternate, ad- 
hering to the branch (which they completely invest by their 
inner surface) for about half Clip length, their sides remain— 
ing free and reflex to the base, linear, taper-pointed, dark 
green above and rough along the reflex circumference, 
cottony and milk white underneath. Flowers terminal. 
solitary, rather more than an inch in diameter; ray reddish 
“purple. Leaflets of the calyx imbricate, numerous, narrow, 
inner ones surmounted by a long recurved sphacelate 
brownish awn. Pappus (seederown) feathered. Receptacle 
; , a 3 é . oe 
Any one that would reduce the scattered notices by 
M. Cassini concerning Composite into a general view would 
render a great service to Botany. At. present we own. we 
often do not know where to find them. 
