Podanthus
(from pous, podos, a foot, and anthos, a flower; in allusion to the stalked flowers). SYN. Euxenia. ORD. Compositae. A genus consisting of only two species (closely related) of greenhouse or hardy, much-branched, scabrous-puberulous, resinous shrubs, natives of Chili. Flower-heads yellow, small, dioecious, at length globose, at the tips of the branches or in the upper axils, shortly pedunculate; achenes slightly scabrous-pilose or papillose; involucre small, with few, narrow bracts; receptacle convex. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. The species thrive in a compost of peat and loam. Propagation may be effected by cuttings, inserted in sand, under a glass. P. Mitiqui (Mitiqui). l. oval-lanceolate, long-cuneate at base, acuminate at apex, deeply serrate. h. 3ft. 1824. Greenhouse.
P. ovatifolius (ovate-leaved). l. broadly ovate, not decurrent into the petiole. h. 2ft. 1825. Greenhouse. SYN. Euxenia grata.