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KAULFUSSIA amelloides. 
Cape- Asterflowered Kaulfussia. 
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SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
Nat, ord. CoRYMBIFERE. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. II. Recept. nudum. 
Sem. papposum. Flores radiati, in TUSSILAGINE et SENECIONE partim 
flosculosi. 
KAULFUSSIA. Cal. communis simplex, aqualis, foliolis (13) 14-16 
lanceolatis obtusis membranaceo-marginatis costà valida herbaced obtusà 
carinatis, applicatis. Calathidium (corolla) radiatum. Flosculi radii feminei, 
copiosi (in nostra planta 7-8), contigui, ligulati, tubo filiformi (pubescente), 
limbo oblongo mox revoluto obtuso apice tricrenato.. Germ. compressum, 
cuneiforme, brevissimè pedicellatum, cum pedicello foveis receptaculi arctà 
inheerens (pubescens) ared apicali papillatà, Stylus tubo vix longior: stig. 
2-fidum: pappus nullus nisi fimbria pilorum brevissimorum. lose. disci 
hermaphr., tubuloso-infundibuliformes, plerique incurvi; tubo pubescente; 
limbo 5-fido patente. . Anthe. coordinatorum, connate (polline ochroleuco). 
Germ. ut in flosculis radii: stylus longitudine tubi antherarum: stig. 2-fidum, 
revolutum: pappus è setis ngidulis plumosis longitudine: tubi flosculorum. 
Recept. (nudum) convexum, alveolatum. (Sem. fusca, obovato-oblonga v. 
cuneata, complanata, appressé pilosa, marginata margine crassa concolori). 
Differt SENICILLI Gertn. sem. 2. 453. t. 173. f. 4. pappi radialis defectá 
et discoidalis longitudine erimié. Ab AGATHEA Cassini (Bulletin de la 
soc. philom. Nov. 1817. 183) pappo difformi, qui in CINERARIA amelloide 
genere illius typo, tam in radio quàm in disco setosus plumosus. Nees von 
essenb. in hor. phys. berol. 53. ` 
Kaulfussia amelloides. Nees von essenb. in kor. phys. berol. 93 et 53. tab. 11. 
Curtis's magaz. 2171. . . 2L . 
Caulis à basi ramosissimus, circiter pedalis, ramis diffusis, tortuosis, 
teretibus, punctato-scabris pilisque rigidis "patentibus hispidis. Fol. (2-3- 
uncialia) alterna, sessilia, patentia, lanceolato-spathulata, mucronulata, 
, minutissimè remote denticulata, carinata, utrinque hirta, rigidula. Flores 
terminales, longe pedunculati, cernui, specie et magnitudine vum CINE- 
RARLE amelloidis. Pedunculus (2-3-uncialis) teres, glandulis sessilibus 
pilisque patentibus inspersus, supernè nudus, infernè foliolis aliquot lanceo- 
latis minoribus praeditus. Cal. hirsutus, Radius ceruleus. Discus saturatè 
violaceus. Planta annua v. biennis, Id. loc. cit. 
A genus lately instituted by M. Nees of Essenbacb, in 
the work we have quoted, and called after Dr. Kaulfuss 
of Halle. The essential distinction from the immediate re- 
latives, consists in the want of pappus (seedcrown) in the 
florets of the ray; while the florets of the disk are furnished 
with a sessile and feathered one. All will be struck with 
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