368 SINANTHERJLE. 



79. C. Badieri, Gr. Branchlets strigose-scabrous ; leaves ovate-lanceolate or ovate, 

 acuminate, cuaeate at the base, remotely serrulate with incurved teeth, glabrescent above, 

 adpressed-hispidulous beneath ; heads pedicellate, corymbose ; involncral scales ovate, acute, 

 substrigose with scattered hairs ; ^.flowers \-serial, 5-7, $ 10-12 : <J corolla abruptly and 



-broadly campanulate above the cylindrical, short base, densely papillose at the lobes ; ache- 

 nium obovate, villous at the top ; sterile stalks villous. — C. terebinthaceum, Badieri, DC. PI. 

 Carib. (non Trixis terebinthacea, Sw.). — A shrub {Imr.), but the branches look like a suffru- 

 ticose herb, as in the preceding ; leaves 5"-3", petiole 6"'-10'" long ; corymbs 2" diam. 

 terminal and axillary : heads 2'" diam. — Hab. Dominica !, Imr. ; [Guadeloupe 1, in woods 

 along rivers]. 



80. C. terebinthaceum, DC. (exc/us. (3). " Branchlets subhirsute ; leaves ovate or ob- 

 long, acuminate, serrulate, hispidulous above, hirsute beneath ; heads subsessile ; involucral 

 scales oblong, acute, pubescent ; ? flowers \-serial (DC), $ numerous : corolla clavate 

 (exic.Sw.); achenium hirsute above the middle." — Sw. Fl. t. 26,/. inf. — Trixis, Sio. — The 

 style in the $ flower is said by Sw. to be bifid, and figured thus, which, if confirmed, would 

 be a difference from all other species. — Hab. Jamaica (Sw.), in stony valleys of the Western 

 districts. 



** Female flowers 2-pluriserial. 



81. C. Alexandri, Gr. («. »/>.). Branchlets and corymbs hirsute; leaves broadly 

 ovate, with a bluntish point, minutely denticulate-serrate, scabrous above, hispidulous and 

 hirsute on the midrib beneath ; heads subsessile-conglomerate, corymbose ; involucral scales 

 ovate, pointed, strigose, 3-striate ; ? flowers 2-serial, 3 5-2: $ corolla subcylindrical 

 from the base, slightly papillose at the lobes ; achenium obovate, glabrous, with a terminal 

 tuft of hairs ; sterile stalks shortly pilose at the top.— 8'-10' ; leaves 7"-5" long, 4"-3" 

 broad •. petiole 1"-1£" long ; corymbs 3" diam., terminal : heads 1£'" diam. — Hab. Jamaica!, 

 Al., Wils., S. Anns at Moneague, Cunacuna Pass. 



82. C. erosum, DC. Branchlets strigose ; leaves ovate, shortly acuminate, cuneate at 

 the long-petioled base, unequally inciso-serrate, scrabrous above, adpressed-hispidulous be- 

 neath; heads pedicellate, corymbose; involucral scales ovate-roundish, strigose with scat- 

 tered down ; 9 flowers 2-serial, $ 10-12 : corolla abruptly and broadly campanulate 

 above the cylindrical base ; achenium obovate, pubescent near the summit ; sterile stalks 

 shortly puberulous above. — Trixis, Sw. — Not poisonous, as is C. Badieri (Imr.). Leaves 

 5"-6" long, 5"-2" broad : petiole H"-2" long ; heads 2 r " diam.— Hab. S. Kitts, Dominica!, 

 Imr. ; Trinidad !, Lockh. 



83. C. fragriferum, Gr. (n. sp.). Branchlets and corymbs densely hirsute ; leaves 

 ovate, pointed, broadly cuneate, unequally inciso-dentate or serrate, scabrous-hispidulous, 

 hirsute on the midrib beneath and on the petiole; heads corymbose, superior subsessile; iu- 

 volucral scales ovate, pointed, strigose ; $ flowers 4-3-serial, <J few : $ corolla clavate ; 

 achenium roundish, shortly pilose at the subtruncate summit ; sterile stalks glabrous. — C. ero- 

 sum, PI. Carib. {non DC). Latreillea peruviana, H. Hook, (non, Pcepp.). — Leaves 3"-6" 

 long, 14"-4" broad: petiole 8"'-12'" long; fruit-bearing heads 3'" diam., globose, distiu- ' 

 guished from the other species by the uumber of spreading, prominent palese, which with 

 the involucral scales cover the whole of it. Latreillea peruviana, Pcepp., having a subcylin- 

 drical receptacle and different ? flowers, is no congener. — Hab. S. Vincent !, Guild. ; 

 [Guadeloupe 1, in the mountains along rivers], 



21. OGIERA, Cass. 



Head discoid, heterogamous, 6-8(-12)-flowered: exterior flowers $, interior $. Invo- 

 lucre foliaceous, 1 -serial. Receptacle paleacous. Anthers distinct, 2- tailed, becoming 

 blackish. Style 2 -fid: branches with no hispidulous appendage. Achenium obovate-pi is- 

 matical, crowued with a ciliate tubercle. — A hispid or pubescent, diffuse, annual herb; 

 leaves opposite, triplinerved, glandular beneath ; heads subsolitary in the axils, peduncled, 

 cernuous, yellowish. 



In the PL Cai ibaue I reduced this plant to Tetranthus : but since "I had the opportunity 



of examining the original T. litoralis, Sw. of Haiti, and I am now rather inclined to con- 



. sider the palese of Tetranthus as iuner involucral scales and its receptacle as naked (in con- 



