that has been drawn. The seed had been sent by Professor 
Lagasca, from Madrid. 
Native of New Spain, where it was observed by Messrs. 
Humboldt and Bonpland in the Valley of Tenochtitl, at the 
elevation of 1200 fathom above the level of the sea, pro- 
ducing its blossom in June. 
A branching hispidly herbaceous plant; branches oppo- 
site, dichotomous, round, streaked, rough. Leaves oppo- 
site, petioled, lanceolate, wpper ones subovately lanceolate, 
taper-pointed, very much natrowed at the base and decur-. 
rent along the petiole, quite entire below, sharply serrate 
upwards, the lowest tooth on each side being the largest, 
reticulately triplenerved, membranous, rough-furred on both 
sides, together with the petiole about 2 inches long, 6-7 lines 
broad: pet. short. Flowers terminal, finally axillary, solitary, 
long stalked, about the size of those of the Nodding Bur- 
Marygold: peduncles 6-8 inches long, round, fluted, hispid, 
leafless. _ Calyx rough-furred, nearly hemispherical, many- 
leafletted ; leaflets loosely imbricated, 4-5 outer ones lanceo- 
late or ovately lanceolate, pointed, flat, membranous, quite 
entire, rough-furred, about half an inch long; zmer twice 
shorter, oblong, scariose, transparent, resembling the chaffs 
(paleze). Receptacle flattish chatfy; palece lanceolate, shorter, 
pointed, keeled, one-nerved, smooth, scariose, transparent. 
FLORETS OF THE DISK numerous, tubular, stamen and pistil- 
bearing, deep yellow, smooth; tube slender, cylindrical, limb 
funnelform 5-nerved 5-toothed, /obes ovate pointed nerveless 
downy pale: anthers connate, ‘enclosed, blackish; germen 
linear, compressed, slightly haired, with a small sessile ur- 
ceolate fringed rim by way of seed-crown: stigmas 2, pro- 
truded, recurvedly spreading and pubescent: oF THE CIRCUM- 
FERENCE (rAy) 6-7 (15 according to Bonpland) ligulate, 
pistilbearing, deep yellow; zube slender, compressed, limb 
ligulate oblong, 2-toothed, flat, spreading, with about 2 
nerves, 5 lines long: germen linear, triangular, smooth, with 
a small sessile fringed urceolate seedcrown; style scarcely 
protruded, smooth; stigmas 2, capillary. 
The description is from the latin of M. Kunth. 
