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~Wepe ia? aurea. Goipen WeDELIA, 
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Class and Order. 
SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composrrz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Radius femineus, uniserialis, rarissime nullus. Ache- 
nium conforme, erostre, angulatum, urceolo foliaceo, hine 
inde aristam unam alteramve brevem gerente coronatum, 
disco epigyno minuto.—Fruticuli aut herbe Americane vel 
Polynesice vel Nepaulenses, magis minusve hispide, foliis 
oppositis, integris aut paucilobatis ; capitulis luteis, termina- 
ibus, solitariis. Less. r 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Wepeuia? aurea; foliis ellipticis yenosis scabris serratis 
sessilibus, involucri foliolis elliptico-lanceolatis, ache- 
niis compresso-triquetris aristis tribus subspinosis. 
EDELIA aurea. D. Don, MSS. 
My first knowledge of this plant was from specimens sent 
to me by the late Mr. Barcray, raised from Mexican seeds, 
with the name here adopted. In August 1824, specimens 
flowered at Glasgow, which were sent by Mr. Cameron 
(formerly gardener to our lamented friend just mentioned) 
from the Birmingham Botanic Garden, under the name of 
Wepeuia aurea, D. Don, MSS. The habit is indeed that 
of Wepezr, but the achenia so little accord with that Genus 
im their structure, that were it not for the opinion thus 
€xpressed of Mr. Don, I should scarcely have ventured to — 
refer it to Wepetia. With some modification, however, of 
the Generic Character, it might be included. It is said to 
ave a tuberous root. © 
Descr. Plant apparently a foot, or a foot and. a half 
high, herbaceous, rounded, scabrous, as is the whole plant, 
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