Bury Hill, by whom our specimens were communicated 
in April last. 
A hardy, green-house shrub, a native of Peru. It 
differs from Encelia parvifolia, in having a hairy, not downy 
stem ; corymbose, not solitary, or nearly solitary, flowers ; 
and leaves with a rounded, not cuneate, base. 
Anunder-shrub, about 2 feet high, with a soft, downy, 
round stem, leafy at the end. Leaves broad, ovate, triangular, 
blunt, 3-nerved, hoary, running down into the petiole, cun- 
eate at the base, softly velvety on each side, on long villous 
stalks; the upper entire, the lower convex somewhat 
toothed. ° Flowers terminal, twin, upon long stalks; peduncles 
villous, with white, spreading, interwoven hairs; above the 
middle bearing a solitary, ovate, subsessile, woolly, recurved 
bract, somewhat folded together. nvolucrum very villous, 
double, spreading, the outer 8-leaved, with ovate-lanceolate, 
blunt, twisted leaves ; the inner with as many narrower, as- 
surgent, alternate leaves. Morets of the ray yellow, about 12, 
1-lipped, ligulate, broad, cuneate, subplicate, imbrieated, 
altogether sterile, with the abortive obsolete rudiment of 
an ovary; those of the disk small, hermaphrodite, funnel- 
shaped, round at ‘the base, glandular-hairy, scattered over 
towards the end with a few spreading hairs, in the inside 
dark purple, wrapped up in a cymbiform palea of the same 
length as themselves and villous, very like the glume of a 
grass. Anthers dark purple, unarmed at base, at the end 
membranous and ovate. Ovary compressed, thin, obovate, 
truncate, hairy, edged on each side with transparent hairs. 
Pappus none. ‘Style filiform, smooth, purple atend. Stigmas 
linear, recurved, papulose, dark purple. Receptacle foveate 
and scaly, with the boat-shaped palew above De oned 
JL, 
