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MADIA ELEGANS. ELecant Mapia. 
KEK EEK KEK EEE EEE EEEEK 
Class and Order. 
SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composir2. ) 
Generic Character. 
Radius femineus uniserialis. Discus hermaphroditus. 
Corolla radii lingulata, lingula triloba tubum superante. 
Achenium erostre, quadrigono-compressum, quadricos- 
tatum disco epigyno parvo.—Herbe Chilenses, viredes, 
erecte ; foliis alternis, semiamplexicaulibus, oblongis; capt- 
tulis luteis, terminalibus vel axillaribus ; rachide plana, 
nuda ; involucris uniserialibus pubescentibus. Less. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Mapia * elegans ; panicula multiflora, radio elongato. 
Mania elegans. Don in Bot. Reg. t. 1458. 
Maparia elegans. De Cand. Prodr. 2. 5. Not. sur les 
Pl. rares de Geneve, n. 7. p. 17. 
A hardy annual, clothed with the same clammy and fetid 
pubescence as the common Mapa viscosa of Chili ; but, in- 
stead of having very small and imperfect rays, as in that 
species, they are developed and spreading so as to give a 
totally different appearance to the plant. It 1s a native of 
North-West America, where it was discovered by the late 
Mr. Davin Dovetas, and through him introduced to the 
: Horticultural 
* From Madi, the vernacular name of the plant in Chili. 
+ The volume of DE CanpoLiE’s Prodromus, where the character of 
this genus, Maparia, is given, not having reached me, although published, 
at the time this sheet went to press, I have been unable to avail myself of 
that author’s essential characteristic marks; and have, hence, for the present, 
been induced to give the plant under its old appellation. 
