BARNADESIA (named after Michael Barnadez, a Spanish botanist), ORD. Compositae. Pretty greenhouse deciduous shrubs, requiring a dry atmosphere. They should be grown in peat, loam, and sand, in equal proportions. Propagated either by seeds, sown in hotbeds in March, or by cuttings, made of half-ripened wood in April, and placed in sand under a bell glass. BARNADESIA rosea (rosy).* fl. heads rose-coloured, solitary, ovate-cylindrical, downy, sessile; florets bilabiate, one lip oblong-emarginate, villous, the other filiform; hairs on receptacle twisted; pappus stiff, plumose. May. l. alternate, ovate, acute at both ends. h. 1 1/2ft. South America, 1840. (B. M. 4232.)