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wedge-sliaped, 3-lobed, bright yellow above, with the faux
often furnished with a dark reddish brown irregular spot,
paler beneath, an inch long, many-nerved, the nerves
branched, with two stronger primary ones perpendicular to
the sinus of the lobes, the intermediate lobe larger, notched.
Florets o f the disk hermaphrodite, funnel-shaped, the tube
white, narrow, the limb dark brownish red, bell-shaped,
shorter than the tube, with 5, ovate, acute, short, connivent
teeth. Filaments capillary, white. Anthers connate, naked
at the base, terminated by a short, ovate, pointed, concave
appendage. Style filiform, glabrous, branches yellow, linear,
compressed, terminated by a very short, apiculate, papillose
appendage. Achenia elliptical, exteriorly convex, dark brown,
and tuberculate, innerside concave, naked, glabrous ; disk
small, terminal, naked. Pappus none.
Not less ornamental than the more common Calliopsis
bicolor, which it much resembles in habit, but from which it
differs in its tern ate leaves with broad segments, fringed
petioles, five-cleft florets of the disk, and lastly by its ventricose
tuberculated achenia. It is like that species a hardy
annual of easy culture, perfecting its seeds freely in the open
border.
We have named the species after its indefatigable discoverer,
the late Mr. Thomas Drummond, whose zeal and
talents so eminently fitted him for a successful collector.
Drawn by Miss Mitchell from plants which blossomed in
Dr. Neill’s collection in September last. The generic name
alludes to the centre of the capitulum, contrasted with the
bright yellow border of the ray-florets, and is composed of
KaXXos, pretty, and o f , o f is, an eye. F . Don.
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