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. STEVIA Eupatoria, 
Hemp- Agrimony-like Stevia. 
. SYNGENBSIA POLYGAMIA BQUALIS. 
STEVIA,” Recept: nudum. Pappus _sristato-paleacens. Cal. 
cylindraceus ex simplici foliorum serie. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1774. 
S. Eupatoria, foliis lanceolatis in petiolum attenuatis trinerviis apice: ob- 
soletê subsersatis, eorymbis fastigiatis, pappo paleaceo & aristato. 
Willd. in Mag. r pereli. nat. f: zu Berlin, 1807. 138. 
Stevia Eupatoria. tlid. sp. pl. 3. 1775. Id. enum. 854. Hort. 
` Kew. ed. 2. 4. 510. | u 
Stevia purparea. Persoon syn. 9. 402. 
Mastelia Eupatoria. Sprengell in Lin. soc. trans. 6. 152. t. 13? 
Planta herbacea, perennis, bipedalis, nunc recumbens. Caulis paniculaio- 
ramosus; rami teretes, villosi, lazè foliosi ramulis floriferis corymboso-fasti- 
giantibus, ` Folia laziîs sparsa, sessilia, oblonga, uscialia v. infra, obtusa 
€um brevi acumine, integra, v. rarids superne obèr et. obtus? subserraia, punc- 
fata, margine villosa, frineroia, deoreim Scip ai lic peine lata sue 
mis ramulis in corymbulos 7 appro: zimati, B-flose 1 i, į- 
cundi; pedicelli Jfüstigiantes à in su i foliis. axillares, 1- a Cal. virens, 
villosus, duplo brevior flosculis; feliola. 5, dae Ml ri , carinata, çon- 
viventia in tubum oblongum. seuli, discoidei, tubulato-hypocrateriformes, 
extern villosi, limbo radiato-partito, laciniis lineari-oblongis, obtusis concavis, 
bis magisve brevioribus tubo. ‘Anthera inclusa, mutica. Stigmata 2, capil- 
lacea, lomgiìs exserta, divaricata; replicata. | Germen longum, ac. calyz 
gracile, verticale, nerooso-angulatum: pappus biformis, ex paleis tribus brevi 
aia alternantibus cum aristis totidem setaceis plumosis subaquantibus 
Á genus as yet wholly mexican, recently introduced 
into our gardens, and likely, from the species which it 
already counts, to prove of some extent.” The name has 
been given by the late Professor Cavanilles, in commemo- 
ration of Dr. Peter Jacob Steve, or Esteve, an eminent phy- 
sician of Valentia, and professor of botany in the univessiz 
of that city, about the middle of the sixteenth century. It 
differs from Eurarorrum and AGERATUM by a calyx of one 
rank of leaflets, and by a pappus, one portion of which is 
long and awned, the other short, paleaceous, and obtuse. 
'The present species is described as being usually recum- 
bent, but the drawing was made from a specimen which 
was supported, so that the appearance it might have had 
when free, has probably not been preserved in the figure. 
