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CACALIA ovalis. 
Oval-leaved Cacalia. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA JEOUALIS. | 
l CACALIA. (Receptaculum nudum. Semen pajpposums Pires 
flosculosi.) Cal. simplex oblongus, basi caliculatus. | Pappus pilosus. 
Jussieu gen. 178. Herbe v. frutices succulenti. 
Div. Herbacee. 
C. ovalis, foliis crassiusculis, villosis, infernis ovalibus repando-dentatis 
petiolatis: supernis sublyrato-amplexicaulibus. ( MS 
Herba perennis villosa. . Folia succulenta, utrinque breve villosa densis et 
iomentosê a. prono ; inferiora caulina 3-4-uncialia, ovali-elliptica, remote et 
breve dentata, apiculo calloso fusco in dentibus, mediâ costá subtüs varicosá 
nervos aliquot. distantes utrinque emittente, petiolo crasso sæpè purpurascente ; 
summa remota, parva, sessilia; basi incisa, dentibus crebrioribus. Caulis ses- 
gui-tripedalis, erectiusculus, subvillosus, infra sanguineo-rubens, terminatus 
paniculá pluriflorá, distante, fastigiata, ramis v. pedunculis 1-fforis, striatos 
teretibus, appresso. uni-bibracteolatis.. Flores odori, flavi, erecti, discoidei v. 
Jlosculosi. haud multúm infra unciam transversi. Cal. quasi monophyllus, 
campanulato-oblongus, sub-12-phyllus, X w. circiter brevior flosculis, subvil- 
losus, basi imbricatus foliolis aliquot brevissimis.  Flosculi numerosi, omnes 
hermaphroditi, clavato-tubulosi, glabri, versus .peripheeriam curvati; tubus 
teres, dilatatus in limbum cum fauce simul eo triplo breviorem ;, laciniae lanceo» 
late, erecte. Anth. 5-dentata, flava, equans Siehe; Stigmata flava, fili- 
Jormi-subulata, longiús exserta, bifurco-divaricata, superne pruinosa. Germ, 
pluriês brevius flosculo, oblongum, teres : a albus, sericeus, minutissime 
denticulatus, vix equans tubum flosculi. ecept. planum, areolatum, areolis 
papillam minutam includentibus. 
We have not traced our plant in any recorded species. 
A specimen of it has been deposited in the Banksian Herba- 
rium, which had flowered in the Kew Gardens, and is 
stated to have come from China. It approaches in general 
habit very near to Senecio divaricatus, a rayless species of 
Chinese Groundsel; but there the foliage is of smaller size, 
lanceolate, and closely serrate, and the florets of the peri- 
phery of the flower, altho' floscular or tubular, are yet sta- 
menless. A character which separates Senecio from Ca- 
CALIA according to the Linnean arrangement in order, as 
well as genus. 
A perennial herbaceous plant, from a foot to a foot and 
half high. Leaves succulent and thick, with a short piled 
pubescence on both surfaces, closer on the under; lower 
