ing, or the points a little reflexed: inner series consisting ot
the same number, which ai'e broadly lanceolate, acute, membranaceous,
close-pressed to the florets, but spreading at
the points. Receptacle flat aud paleaceous, the chaft' narrowly
linear, nearly as long as the florets. Rays generally
5, but sometimes 6 to 8, broad, and spreading, sterile, terminated
by three shallow rounded teeth or lobes, white, but
striped at the back, with several prominent purple veins.
Florets o f the disk numerous, yellow, tubular, 5-toothed,
the teeth ovate, acute, spreading. Stamens 5, filaments
distinct, slender: anthers united into a tube, black, naked
at the base, but terminated by chaffy points. Style smooth,
yellow. Stigma bifid, the segments linear, fimbriate, spreading.
Seed rough, flattish, 4-angled, generally 2-aristate, one
of the aristae longer than the other; some seeds have only
one arista, and others are without any.
This handsome Autumn-flowering plant is a native of
Mexico, and the specimens from which our drawing was
made was kindly sent to us from the superb collection of
Robert Barclay, Esq. of Bury-hill: Mr. Cameron informs
us that the seeds were sown on a hotbed last Spring, and
afterwards planted out in the open border, where they produced
a few straggling flow’ers through the Summer; but
that the plant from which our specimens was taken, was
then (the thirteenth of November) in full beauty, the plant
being nearly four feet high, and bushy from the bottom,
and completely covered all over with flowers and flower-
buds; he thinks it likely to prove perennial if protected
through the Winter; but from its appearance we should
judge it to be scarcely better than an annual. We also received
specimens of it from Mr. Tate, of the Sloane-street
Nursery, who raised a great many plants of it from seeds
sown in the open borders ; but as they were not sown till
late in Spring, they did not flower so strong as Mr. Barclay’s.
Mr. Tate received the seeds, with those of many
other rare plants, from George Ackerman, Esq. of the
Strand, who received them from Mexico.
1. Involucre, showing the two serie^ot* leaflets. 2. Receptacle, showing the
long narrow sharp-pointed chaiF, 3. One o f the Rays. 4. Floret o f the disk
spread open. 5. The 5 Stamens, the anthers united, and the filaments distinct.
0. Seed terminated by two unequal aristas, also the Style and bifid fimbriate
Stigma.