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WEDELIA radiosa. 
Close-rayed Wedelia. 
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SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA, 
Nat. ord. ComPosITE. Adanson fam. 2. 103. 
CORYMBIFERE. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. VI. 
HELIANTHER. Cassini in journ. de phys. 68; (an. 1819). 
191. 
WEDELIA.  Suprà vol. 7. fol. 543. 
W. radiosa, suffruticosa ? aspera; foliis ovato-lanceolatis; calyce herbaceo 
urceolato squarroso, foliolis oblongis subspathulato-ovatis, imis divari- 
catis: corollæ radio imbricato-contiguo, ligulis obovato-oblongis. 
Suffruticosa? aspera, erecta, 3-A-pedalis, opposito-ramosa, ramis fus- 
cescentibus, frequentibus, teretibus, hispidis, foliosis, patentibus, sep? tri- 
chotomo-terminatis. Fol. hispida, subcinereo-virentia, opaca, opposita, 
remota, lanceolato-ovata, subserrata, 5-uncialia v. longiora latitudine sub- 
biunciali, nervosa nervis 2 lateralibus principibus adscendentibus, basi breve 
cuneata: petiolus pluries brevior, hirsutè ciliatus. Pedunculi terminales, 
solitarii, erecti, uniflori, foliis longiores. Flores lutei, erecti, diametro 
sesquiunciali v. majore. Cal. foliaceus, hispidus, rigens, corolle disco bre- 
vior, urceolato-squarrosus, ordine plurali polyphyllus, gradatim. inferne 
versus patentior ; foliola oblonga, extima decussato-patentissima laminá ovata 
utrinque hispidá, ungue brevissimo v. nullo, media infernè erecta superne 
recurva, intima submembranosa erecta solo apice patula. Rapıus femi- 
neus, utrinque sulphureus, plurimus ( duodenus?) imbricato-contiguus, disco 
satis depressior: flosculi caduci, tubo recurvo, compresso, firmo, glabro, 
plurimüm breviore disco, lamina obovatá, oblongá, convexulá, biplicatá, 
emarginatá, prope tubum pilosiusculá ; stylus capillaris, tubo bis longior, stig- 
matibus canaliculato-capillaribus, glabris, replicatis, disco equalibus; germ. 
lineari-compressum, obsolete trigonum, villosum, pappus quater brevior v. 
ultra, membranaceus, 1-phyllus, compresso-cupulatus, oblongus, villosus, fim- 
briato-laciniatus lacinulis inequalibus plumosis: Discus hermaphr., pluri- 
mus, angustus, flavus; flosculi clavato-cylindracei, graciles, tubo tereti 
glabro opaco plurimüm longiore germine, fauce pauld ampliatá 5-goná, 
limbi laciniis flavis patulis brevibus acuminatis cum margine incrassato villoso 
intensius flavicante: fil. elastica; anthera nigricans, anguloso-striata, val- 
vulis 5 luteis ovato-acuminatis apiculata ; pollen vitellinum; stig“. flava, 
exserta, spiralitér revolvenda, lineari-canaliculata, dorso et margine cana- 
liculi villosa; germ. radii nisi obesius, subAgono-compressum angulis hir- 
sutioribus pappo sublongiore. Recept. planum, paleaceum: paleæ diaphane, 
convoluto-vaginantes cum carina elevata, appendice prefiza flava lanceoiato- 
ovatá erecta planá ecarinatá villosa. 
We have neither traced our plant in any published species, 
nor found any sample of it in either the Banksian or Lam- 
bertian Herbariums. The seed has been lately brought from 
the Brazils, and raised in the hothouse of the Nursery of 
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