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yellow, paniculately corymbose. Peduncles tliickly clothed
with tufts of woolly hairs. Involucrum of many leaflets,
hemispherical; leaflets imbricate, upper ones longest,
pubescent, oblongly ovate, concave, with broad,
scariose, membranaceous points, and margins. Receptacle
convex, punctate, naked. Rays narrow, about
twice the length of the leaflets of the Involucre, shallowly
2 or 3-toothed, of a pale yellow, tubular at the
base, and producing a perfect style and bifid stigma,
and apparently perfect seed. Florets o f the disk numerous,
funnel-shaped, 5-toothed, producing both stamens
and pistils. Stamens 5: filaments distinct, smooth: anthers
naked, connected into a tube. Style smooth, exserted,
longer than the stamens. Stigma bifid, the points
dilated, and slightly recurved.
From the description in Persoon’s Synopsis, the present
appears to be the plant meant there as C. indi-
cum; but it is certainly not that of other authors, which
is a plant with sinuate leaves, and a much smaller
flower, such as is published by Mr. Sabine, in the Horticultural
Society’s Transactions, and also figured in
the works of several old authors.
The present species was introduced from China a
few years hack, by Mr. Brookes, of the Balls-pond
Nursery, Islington, and is now become common in the
collections about London; it is quite hardy; but as its
time of flowering is in Winter, it will seldom expand its
flowers in the open air, except the plants are near a
south wall, and are protected with mats in frosty weather,
so as to keep the buds fresh till Spring; but it
will flower in a warm light room, or in the Greenhouse;
and cuttings, planted under hand-glasses, root freely.
Our drawing was made from a plant at the Apothecaries’
Company’s Garden at Chelsea, in December
last.
1. Involucrum. 2. Receptacle. 3. F lo re t o f the Ray. 4. F lo re t o f th e disk
spread open, showing its nerves. 5. The 6 Stamens ; th e filaments d istin ct, and
the an th ers connected, fi. Young Seed te rmina ted by the Style, and bifid
spreading Stigma.
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