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Motisia speciosA. HANDSOME PINNATE- 
LEAVED MoutTIs1IA. 
Class and Order. 
SYNGENESIA Potycamia SUPERFLUA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composrra. Div. Perpiciea: corollas 
bilabiatis. Sprene. ) . 
Generic Character. 
Inoolucrum cylindricum, imbricatum, squamosum 3; squa- 
mis latis. Recept. nudum. Flosculi, disci, hermaphroditi,- 
tubulosi, 5-dentati, demum in lacinias; 2—5 wquales, vel 
in tres inequales fissi; anthere bisetose : radu feminei, 
bilabiati ; labio inferiore ligulam— referente, | _tridentato, 
iperiore minore + a aia de scenes’ petilals. | style 
m. enta | la: m en torum 5. : e.% i 
Specific Character and ss a 
Mutisia speciosa; scandens, foliis pinnatis 6—7 j Jjugis peti- 
olis cirriferis, foliolis ovato-lanceolatis acutissimis ses- 
silibus arachnoideo-tomentosis demum glabris, f floribus 
solitariis longe pedunculatis, squamis inferioribus ‘in- 
volucri recurvis. 4 
Moutisia speciosa. Aiton Mss. in Hort. Reg. Kew. 
oe A scande siteeldnl of, Thre ble Browth as culti- 
vated in a oe in The stoves of the Kew ens; but, 
probably, in its native soil, reaching to a considerable 
length, Stems and branches angular. Leaves pinn ated, 
with about six or seven alternate leaflets on ‘each side, 
sparingly. covered with a _cobweb-like down, at length, 
probably, in consequence of age, becoming glabrous: 
Leaflets one, and sometimes nearly two inches long, ovato- 
po entire, very acute, contracted at the base, but 
iolate, and there three-nerved ; the rest of the leaflet 
veiny: -main ‘petiole slender, terminated by a large branch- 
ng tendril. ome elliptical. Peduncle terminal, Pras hick 
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