the hothouse at the botanic establishment of Comtesse de 
Vandes at Bayswater, in February last. — 
Stems round, flexuose, fluted, proliferously leafy. Leaves 
clammy, alternate, numerous, sessile, decurrent, long-lan- 
ceolate, narrow, of the length of 3 inches with the breadth 
of scarcely 4 of an inch, 3-nerved, covered with small 
glandular pits and white particles perceptible only by the 
help of a magnifier, thin, pliant, taper-pointed and recurved 
at the top, with a slight minute glandular edging. Panicle 
repeatedly dichotomous, cymously level, leafy; branchlets 
slender, stiff and straight, elastic, angularly fluted; pe- 
duncles terminal subsessilely 3-flowered. Flowers golden- 
yellow, small, and as it appeared to us with a scent some- 
thing like that of Seaweed; each subtended by a linearly 
oblong close-pressed bracte. Calyx clammy, oyally oblong, 
white and partly green, constricted at the orifice; leaf- 
lets several, closely imbricate, lanceolate, keeled at the 
back, green at the top, inner ones broader, obtuse. Disk of 
the flower of about 4-6? florets with stamens and pistil, 
higher than the calyx, with a revolute limb; anthers of a 
deep reddish yellow, stigma two-lobed clavately connivent 
protruded: ray of inconspicuous pistilliferous florets, tube 
slender capillary straight pale twice the length of the ger- 
men and many times that of the limb; /imb minute, yellow, 
linearly oblong, hardly larger than the stigma. Germens of 
both disk and ray the same, white, turbinately linear, 
frosted; pappus (seed-crown) none; stigma of the ray deep 
yellow, forked, with two fine linear lobes. Receptacle a 
naked point at the bottom of the calyx. 
