( 4116 ) 



Chabr^a runcinata. Changeable-flow- 

 ered Chabr/ea. 



Class and Order. 



SYNGENESIA iEoUALIS. 



( Nat. Ord. — Composite. ) 



Generic Character. 



Capitulum multiflorum homogamum radiatiforme, involu- 

 crum campanulatum, squamis oblongis stricte duplice serie 

 dispositis sed aequalibus et seriem unicnm prima fronte 

 simulantibus. Receptaculum totum epalaceum. Corolla 

 omnes glabra? hermaphroditae bilabiatae; disci lobo ext. 

 3-dentato, int. bipartite* lobis saepe subconcretis: radii 

 labio ext. ligulaeformi revoluto 3-dentato, int. minore 

 bipartito. Anthera basi bisetosae, apice appendicuiatae. — 

 Achcenium ovato-cylindraceum erostre papilloso-pilosulum. 

 Pappus 1-serialis, paleis basi in annulum subconcretis 

 equaiibus subplumosis. — Herbae Aust.~ Americana: suba- 

 caules aut caulescentes . Folia pinnatisecta, segmentis 

 ulrinque 6 — 9 parvis obtuse et grosse dentatis. D C. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Chabilea* runcinata; caule ramoso pedunculisque piloso- 

 glandulosis, foliis caulinis supra glabriusculis subtus 

 albo-lanatis pinnatifidis, lobis remotiusculis oblongis 

 acutis integris vel subpinnatifidis, capitulis longe 

 pedunculatis solitariis, involucri hemisphaerici squamis 

 lanceolatis glandulosis, achaeniis sericeo-villosis. 



Leucheria runcinata. Gill, et Don Phil. Mag. 1832. p. 

 389. Hook, et Am. Comp. Bot. Mag. vol. I. p. Sb. 



Chabrjea rosea. De Cand. in Deless. Ic. 4 t. 90. 



Perdicium roseum. Poepp. Exs. n. 378. 



Lasiorhiza rosea. Poepp. 3. n. 216. 



From 



* Thus named by Professor De Candolle in compliment to Dominicus 

 Chaubrey, of Geneva, author of a work entitled, '* Omnium Stirpium 

 Seiographia, 166a" 



