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Eriocephalus Africanus. Cluster- 

 Leaved Eriocephalus. 



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CAz/} tf»i Order, 

 Syngenesia Polygamia Necessaria. 



Generic Charatler. 



Recept. nudum. Pappus o. CaL 10-phyllus, aequalis. Radii 

 flofculi 5. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



ERIOCEPHALUS africanus , foliis integris divififque, flo- 

 ribus corymbofis. Linn, Spec. PL 1310. 

 Hort. Cliff. 424. Hort. Kew. 3. p. 278. 

 Reich. 3. p. 938. 



ERIOCEPHALUS racemofus. Gxrt. Frucl. 2. p. 428. t. 16B. 



ERIOCEPHALUS fempervirens, foliis fafciculatis et digi- 

 tatis. Dill. Elth. 132. /. no./. 134. 



ABROTANUM africanum foliis argenteis anguftis, floribus 

 umbellatis, capitulis tomentofis. Rati Hijf. 



3-A 2 3 2 - 

 ABROTANUM africanum folio tereti tridentato. Walth 



Hort. 1. /. 1. 



We have very little doubt but that Gartner's figure really 

 belongs to our plant, though fuppofed by him to be Erio- 

 cephalus racemofus, which has very (hort peduncles growing 

 in long racemes, and not feveral, in a fort of umbel at the ex- 

 tremity of the branch, as in our fpecies, in which there are 

 alfo frequently a few fingle flowers growing on peduncles 

 longer than the folitary leaves or bra6les towards the extremity 

 of the branch, from the axils of which they iffue. As he had 

 only dry flowers to examine, it is not to be wondered at that 

 Gartner did not find a double calyx ; what he takes to be 



the 



