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GNIDIA TOMENTOSA. Downy Gwnip1a. 
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Class and Order. 
OcranpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Tuymetez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium simplex, coloratum, tubulosum, quadrifi- 
dum. Sguame ad faucem. Anthere tubo inserte. Nux 
monosperma. , 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Gnip1A tomentosa; foliis oppositis decussatis elliptico-ovatis 
obtusiusculis nervosis hirsutis subtus scabriusculis, 
floribus capitatis villosis, squamis antheriformibus 8 
per paria approximatis. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 512. 
Gnipia tomentosa. Thunberg Fl. Cap. v. 1. p.381. Willd. 
Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 427. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 2. p. 239. 
Gnipia pubescens. “ Berg. Cap. 124.” (Willd.) . 
Gnipia denudata? Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 757. 
Drscr. A twiggy shrub, three or four feet high, bare 
of leaves below, proliferous, very leafy and downy at the 
extremities. Leaves opposite, decussate, more or less pa- 
tent, sometimes reflexed, ovate, or ovato-lanceolate, very 
often approaching to oblong or elliptical, sessile, rather 
obtuse at the point, five-nerved, hairy, especially the upper 
and younger leaves, the hairs patent, the older ones often 
glabrous above, the underside slightly scabrous when seen 
through a lens, and more conspicuous in the dried than in 
the living plant. Flowers sessile, collected into a sort of 
fasciculated head at the extremity of the younger shoots, 
and surrounded by four closely-placed leaves which form 
an involucre: Tube long and slender, swollen at the base, 
where the germen is contained, and a little so at the ex- 
tremity, externally clothed with long, generally much 
Spreading, white, and rather silky hairs: Segments age 
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