P L A T E CCXCI.
S E N E C I O PSEUDO -CHINA.
Chma-root Gi'oundfel.
CLASS XIX. ORDER II.
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Tips united. Superfluous Pointals.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX. Communis calyculatus, conicus, truncatus;
fquamls fubulatis, pUirimis, in cylindrura
fupenie contraàum, parallelis,
contiguis, aequalibus, paucioribus bafin imbricatini
tegentibus, apicibus emortuis.
COROLLA. Compofita, calyce altiorj Coriillulae
herraaphroditae tubulofa:, numerofae iu
difco; Feminese ligulatae in radio (fi quae
adfiut).
Propria hermaphroditi infundibuliformis;
limbo reflexo, quinquefido.
Femineis (fi qus ) oblonga, obfolete tridentata.
STAMINA. Hermaphroditis ; filamcnta quinqué,
capillaria, minima. Antliera cylindracea,
tubuloia.
PISTILLUM utrifque; germen ovatum. Stylus
filifbrmis, longitudine ftaminum. Stigmata
duo, oblonga, revoluta.
PERICAHPIUM nullum. Calyx conico-conniveus.
SEMINA hermaphroditis solitaria, ovata. Pappus
crinitus, longus. Femineis fimilirna
hermaphroditis.
EECEPTACÜLUM nudum, planum.
EMPALEMENT. Common, double, conical, appearing
cut oiF; icales awl-ihaped, numerous,
contraited above into a cylinder, parallel,
contiguous, equal, the bafe tiled by
a few scales, dead at the ends.
BLOSSOM. Coinpound, taller than the cup;
Plermaphrodite florets tubular, numerous
in the diik; Female florets (if there are
any) tongue-fliaped in the circumference.
Hermaphrodite florets funnel fliaped, border
refleKed, five-cleft.
Female florets (if any) oblong, obfcurely
three-toothed.
CHIVES. Of the hermaphrodite florets; five
threads, hair-like, very fmall. Tips forming
a tubular cylinder.
PoiNTAL in either; Seed bud egg fliaped. Shaft
thread-fliaped, the length of the chives.
Summits two, oblong, rolled back.
SEED-VESSEL none. Empalement clofing into a
cone.
SEEDS of hermaphrodite florets folitary, eggfhaped.
Feather hairy, long. Females like
the hermaphrodites.
RECEPTACLE naked, flat.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Senecio foliis finuatis, integris, difcoloribus;
corollis purpuréis; radice tuberofa.
Groundfel with obtufely Indented leaves entire
and two-coloured; bloflbms purple; root
tuberous.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Cup.
2. A Female floret, of the ray or circumference.
3. A Pointal of the female floret magnified.
4. An Hermaphrodite floret of the diik or centre.
5. The Chives and Pointal of an Hermaphrodite floret, magnified.
THE roots of this plant were received at the fame time with the double Camellias, China Rofes, &c.
from China, by the late J, Slater, Efq. of Laytonftone, Eflex; we have, neverthelefs, good reafon to
believe it was known formerly in our gardens; but has been certainly lofi:, for many years, to us. It
is faid to have been cultivated by James Sherrard, M. D. in 1732, as copied from Dellinens's Hortus
Elthamenfis, into the Kew Catalogue. Miller speaks of it as flowering freely, and perfefting its
feeds; whereas, in the Hort. Kew. they omit its time of flowering, which, had it ever flowered there,
would certainly have been noted. Our drawing was taken in the month of July lafl; year, 1 802, from
a plant in the Hibbertian Colle6llon, the firlt and only time we have ever feen it flower in England.
It is propagated by the roots, which are large and flefliy; the plant is herbaceous, and fliould have
but little water during the winter months, as the roots are very fubject to rot; they are imported
from Irdia as a drug, under tbe name of China-root. Muft he kept in the hot-houfe, and planted
in rich earth.
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