514 _— 
Mejice, pr. el bance, Jan. 1839: C. Ehrenberg n. 939, 
Obs. Eandem in Mejiei prov. Oaxaca prins legit Som- 
merschn! Carlsruhanus, 
Div. I. ELEPHANTOPRAE Cass. — Less. — DC. pr. V. 
Pı 85. 
Genera 3 hujas divisionis, nempe: Elephantopus Cass., 
Elephantosis Less. et Distreptus Cass. a ol, DC. I. c, enu- 
merata et secnndum pappum formata, duce el, Gaertner, End- 
licher aliisque ut subgenera agnosco. 
Sectio , Knelephantopus Endl. gen. n. 2231. 
Achaenia columnari-clavata i. e, inferne atienuata, SU- 
perne dilatata, apice paulo attraeta, 10-costaia, infer costas 
plus minusre hirta, pilis adpressis qandoque tam eonlerlis nt 
superne pappum externum hrevem forment, quandogae vero 
glabresventia et superne fanium pilis sparsis insirneta. Pap- 
pus 1-serialis, persistens e paleis compositus ». 5 (rarius— 
8) rectis, setaceis, denticalatis, basi in scariositatem expansis 
triangnlari-lauceolatam, margine denticulato - ciliatam, achae- 
nit longitodinem subaeguantem. — Herbae Americae calidae 
vel Indiae orientalis, 2} vel biennes, polymorphae, plus mi- 
ausve sirigoso-hirtae, dichotome corymbosae, glomeralis po- 
Iycephalis terminalibns, 
$. 1. Corolla glabra DC. pr, V. p. 86. — In Linnaee 
XVIL p. 594, jam monui apecies 5 Candollei primas vix 
specifice differre, Variant enim formae hic enumeratae mi- 
rum in wodam quead indamenlum, ramißeationem, foliorum 
dispositionem notasgne alias: 
Hac etiam spectat: Klephantopus ciliatus Zollinger et 
Moritzi! in syst, Verz. p. 09, in oryzelis et ad vias prope 
Tjikoya Javae lectus: Zollinger! pl. Javae exs. n. 7. Flanta 
est bipeäalis, villose -sirignsa, snbranesceus, rbisomale % 
