with silky hairs, having a small, linear, two-toothed, spirally
convolute inner lip, a narrow compressed, glabrous tube, 5
sterile stamens, with pointed membranous anthers, and a
smooth club-shaped stigma, with connate lobes. The florets
o f the disk are of an orange yellow, tubular, quite glabrous,
tube cylindrical, green, the limb composed of two nearly
equal, ovate, erect, concave lips, the outer one 3-toothed,
inner one 2-toothed. Filaments compressed, white, glabrous,
thinner and membranous at the base, the upper joint short,
contracted. Anthers united into a tube, yellow, furnished
with 2 branched bristles at the base, and terminated by a
linear, acute, rigid, brownish appendage, exceeding the
anther itself in length. Style filiform, with separate, spathulate,
recurved and spreading branches, which are externally
minutely papillose just below the apex. Stigmatic surfaces
as broad as the branches of the style, terminating abruptly
just below their apex. Achenia 4-sided, compressed, and
thickly covered with crystalline papillae, those of the ray
narrower and flatter. Pappus pilose, persistent, of a pale
sulphur colour, the rays unequal, pointed, rather bristly,
spirally twisted, finely toothed and scabrous, and disposed
in a double series.
The absence of foliaceous appendages to the scales of
the involucrum, so strikingly developed in C. ciliata, led me
formerly to regard the plant now before us, as constituting
the type of a new genus, but afterwards finding in the collections
of Dr. Gillies and Mr Cuming, other species, clearly
allied to this, and possessing foliaceous appendages, it became
evident that the genus could be no longer retained,
and the importance of those appendages, as in the case of
Mutisia, reduced to the degree of a specific character.
The plant is perennial, with a somewhat woody caudex,
and has been but very lately introduced from Chile, where
it is found growing abundantly in sandy places, particularly
in the Provinces of Conception, Rere, and Santiago.
Ourdrawing was taken, in July last, at Mr. Knight’s Nursery,
where the plant had been raised from seeds received
from Mr. Cuming. The plant is impatient of wet, and
should be protected in a pit, or frame, in Winter, and may
be increased by slips or seeds.
The generic name alludes to the bristles at the base of
the anthers, a character common to all the plants of this
family, and is compounded of a bristle, and av6epa, an
anther. D. Don.
1. Floret o f the ray. 2. Floret o f the disk. 3. Radical leaf.