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SPHENOGYNE pilifemv 



Hair-tipped Sphenogynt. 



SYNGENESIA POLYG^mj FRVSTItANE^. 



Nat, wd. CoMPOSiTJE. Adansanfam, % 103. 



CorymbiferjE. Jussieu gen. i'fj, JHv. VL 



SPHENOGYNE. Aecepf. paleis distinctis. Pappw* paleaceus, sim- 

 plex. Stigmata apice. dilatato subtnincato. Col. imbricatus : squamis in- 

 timis (omnibusTe) apice dilatato scarioso. Brown m H&rt, Kew, e<L % 5* 142. 



Herbm vet Siepi&$Jhftice$ Auitrali-ftfricana. 



S* pilifera, fruticosa, pilosiuscula^ erecta, ramosa, foliis frequentibus caN 

 nosis Uaearibus pinnatifidis bipuinatifidi8Te> sui^mis bi-trifidis v. iDdivisis : 

 pappo flosculis disci plunks breriore : paleis receptaculi inclusis trun- 

 cans fioscutos senuamplectentibus. 

 Aretotis pilifera. Berg, cap, 356, Willd. «p. pL 3. 2360. 

 Arctotis crithmoides. Jacq, hart, schienb. 2. 15. 1. 155; (n<m aliorum, qwe 

 est eadem cum Sphenogyne crithmifoH. Brown in Hort* Kew* ed, 2. 5, 

 142, ArctotidE foeniculacea. Jacq.hyrt, sch(Bab.^.\5. f. 156^ atqae 

 ARCTOTiDEpaleaceS, WiM. sp.pL 3. 2359-) 



Fruticuius alteme ramoms ; rami adscendentes, virenieM, teretes, vtUoHf 

 approximato-foli^m, UneatL . ]^ol. sparsBg' numeroMa, camagulay pHosa, 

 immerso-puncticulata, lineari-piimaty^a v. rani^ bipinnat^da (superiara 

 ^-S-Jida vel integra), semuncialia v, drcd, (otns attends v, €ppositis, nunc 

 foUcrum ^ratorum ad instdr infem^ verms gradatim bremarWitB, setnlk hrepi 

 mAHK apiculatisy rachide utrinque sulcatA, Pedunculi /erm^&«, solitariij 

 X'flmi^ eioTtgato-filiformes (sm^nciales?), erecti, ptZostuscu/i, lineati, . 

 aphylli V, foliolu paums svhulatis appressis bracteati^ ^ Flores ^am, erecti, 

 dtametro viz nndali. Cal. ctipuJa/iw, bis brevior radio v. ultrd, viridi et 

 Jit»Do subtessetlato^variusy glaber, std^eriato-in^Tieatu$ ; foliola erecta, 

 inirorsdm tongiora^ margine scariosa, et pone marginem lined Jnscd circum- 

 notata: mtimo. ovato-obto^a, taminS scariosd paUtdd erectd taii ovata con- 

 vexd cum macul6 Jnscd in disco appendiculata ; media ovato-lanceolaia ; 

 eiLiim3.,suhUato-attenuata, Radius Micrtinw, neuter, stellatns, mbtitsrubi' 

 cundus, revoluto-emarcescens ; flosculonim lamina lineari-ligulata plana ob- 

 tusa svinntegra, suitiis et summo tubo pube minutd glandutasa diaphand taxirn 

 aspersa; tubus rectus gracilis subviresoens : Discus nvmeronct yZarut^ her- 

 maphr., convexiuscubis, radio S-4plo brevior; 6osc. obverse cyHmbracei, gla- 

 bri; tubus fauce amtinma par&m ampHatd pemtagonS longior; limbus luieus 

 laeiniisfaucepluri^brevwr^nu apice incrassato acuta: anth*^tw vtUvulis 

 6 minutis ad aptcem, basi mtegerrimte ; 61, elastico-^xtensilia ; poMen^vum^ 

 granuhsum : stig. yZiitw, apice subcristato-dilatata pubentia, OEterum gla- 

 bra: germ, land baseos obvallatnra, tnbofiosculi brevius^ Itneari-obUmgum^ 

 cglindricum ; palete & pappi tenues ovato-rotundm glabrm germine duplo bre- 

 viores convotuto-imbricata, Reccpt planiusculum, paleaceum; paleae dm- 

 pkano-aUHcantes, tAUmgoij disco i t?. circd breviGres, floscuhs semiampkc- 

 tenteSf eroso-trvncatm. 



The subject of our article evidently belongs to the Arc- 

 totis crithmoides of Jacquin, but not to Bergius's species 



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