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Centroclinium appressum. Close-pressed- 

 scaled Centroclinium. 



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C7#ss awd Order. 

 Syngenesia Superflua. 



( Nat. Ord. — Composite. Div. LabiatifloRjE. ) 



Generic Character. 



Involucrum subglobosum vel cylindraceum arete imbri- 

 catum. Flosculi disci tubulosi, 5-dentati, hinc profundius 

 fissi ; radii 7 — 12 bilabiati, labio interiore minutissimo 

 bipartite erecto, (dein revoluto ?) exteriore longissimo tri- 

 fido. Antherce biaristatae. Stigma integrum. Pappus in- 

 asqualis, scaber. Receptaculum spinulis mollibus hispidum. 

 Herbae ? v. Frutices, Peruviance. Folia petiolata subtus 

 albo-tomentosa. Pedunculi solitarii axillares vel terminates 

 uniflori. Flores fragrantes speciosi : Radius purpureo- 

 roseus. 



Specific Character. 



Centroclinium appressum; fruticosum, foliis lanceolatis 

 subintegerrimis, pedunculis nudis, involucri squamis 

 erectis appressis. 



Descr. Stem shrubby, one to two feet high in our 

 stove, with white, woolly branches, and numerous patent 

 or reflexed leaves, three inches or more long, lanceolate, 

 waved, and nearly entire, partially glabrous and green 

 above, pure white and cottony beneath. Peduncle solitary, 

 terminal, or, from the prolongation of a shoot beneath it, 

 axillary, woolly, naked, single-flowered. Flower large, 

 fragrant. Florets of the disk and of the ray, similar to 

 those described under C. reflexum. Involucre cylindrical, 

 imbricated with many close-pressed, subulate scales. Re- 

 ceptacle with soft, small aculei. 



