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PoveNTILLA SPLENDENS. Saininc Nepau 
PorenTILLA. 
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Class and Order. 
. IcosANDRIA Potyaynia. 
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_.- Generic Character. 
Cal. 10-fidus, laciniis alternis minoribus. Petala 5. 
eceptaculo sicco affixa. =~ 
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_ Pericarpia subspherica, recepta 
Specific Character and Synonyms. %, 
Porentitta splendens ; caule erecto piloso, foliis in 
rupte pinnatis foliolis ellipticis utrmque (subtus pre- 
cipue) sericeis-candicantibus argute serratis valde ner- 
vosis subplicatis, stipulis latis serratis, floribus sub- _ 
_corymbosis (flavis), petalis late-ovatis calyce vix 
longiortbutage ge SE 
PorentiLta spl . Wallich Mss. (not Ramond.) Don 
Prodr. Fl. Nepal. p. 230. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 
582. | ome 
- Porentitta fulgens. Wall. in Herb. — a ; 
Porentit1a lineata. “ Trevir.”» Sprengel Syst. Plant. 
v. 2. p. 584. ao 2 
. Faye 
Dezscr. Wild specimens of this plant have the stems from 
eight to ten inches high, and the leaves six to eight inches 
long. In a state of cultivation, they attain to twice that 
size. The stems are erect, clothed with a thick down 
mixed with long hairs. The leaves are composed of 
many (except the upper ones) interrupted, nearly elliptical 
leaflets, thickly covered on both sides with beautiful ad- 
pressed, silky hairs, almost a pure white beneath: the 
_ margins are closely and sharply serrated: the nerves placed 
close to each other, parallel, and so deep, as to an e 
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