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STEVIA BREVIARISTATA. SHORT-AWNED 
STEVIA. 
KEKE EERE EEE EREEERE 
Class and Order. 
SyNGENEsIA AUQUALIs. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Capitulum 5-florum. Involucrum cylindricum squamis 
5—6 acutis acuminatisve subequalibus. Receptaculum 
nudum. Achenium striato-nervosum angulatumve elon- 
gatum. Pappus paleis 1-serialibus nunc in iisdem aut 
sepius in diversis individuis omnibus scariosis planis parvis, 
nunc aliis scariosis, aliis (pler. alternis) in aristas 1—5 rigi- 
dis margine scabras abeuntibus, nunc omnibus (pler. 5— 
20) in aristas mutatis. D C. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Srevia * breviaristata ; glabriuscula, foliis ovatis seu ovato- 
lanceolatis trinerviis grosse obtuse serratis in petiolum 
attenuatis, corymbis dense capitatis, involucro pubes- 
centi-viscoso, pappiaristis tribus quarum duabus subu- 
latis corolla tubo 4-plo brevioribus tertia minutissima. 
Srevia breviaristata. Hook. et Arn. Contrib. towards a Flora 
of S. Am. in Hook. Comp. to Bot. Mag. ». 1. p. 238. 
This very pretty Srevia is an inhabitant of Tucuman in 
South America, where it was found among other rarities by 
Mr. Tweepie, and whence specimens and seeds were sent in 
1836. 
* So named by CAVANILLES in memory of PrERRE JACQUES EsTEVE, 
a Spanish Physician of the sixteenth century, who wrote a ‘‘ Dictionary of 
the Plants of the Kingdom of Valentva.” 
