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§ 24. PseUDEREMIA. [Inflorescence terminal, capitate; heads few or many- 
flowered ; flowers mostly corolline. Bracts mostly closely approximate, like the 
sepals narrow, and most. usually ciliate with rather long plumose hairs. Corolla 
urceolate or campanulate, glabrous or pubescent, mostly 1-4 lin. long, in one 
species sometimes attaining to 5 lin. Anthers mostly included or rarely sub- 
exserted lateral, appendiculate. . Habit various. Leaves 3-nate or 4-nate, some- 
times irregular or scattered. Pubescence variable, often characterized by plumose 
hairs. All the species (except one) are denizens of the higher mountains. 
The section is allied to § Chromostegia, from which it is artificially divided by 
a different aspect and the absence of involucrating leaves below the heads, 
ExcePtions: flowers subcorolline or subcalycine in E. Cooperi; anthers sub- 
exserted in H. Greyit. 
Leaves 3-nate (in ZH. Maderi often 4-nate or scat- 
tered) : 
Toads 10-23-flowered ; corolla 24-5 lin. long ... (832) Maderi. 
Heads usually fewer than 10-flowered; corolla 
2 lin. long or less : 
Anthers long-subulate-aristate; style in- 
cluded ies see fet veh .-. (337) oxysepala. 
Anthers very minutely toothed; style ex- 
serted ts ve sta vs ... (338) Greyii. 
Leaves 4-nate (in HE. Maderi sometimes 3-nate or 
scattered) : 
Corolla pubescent or puberulous : 
Not much branched, mostly weak and 
straggling .., i “ea ave .-. (334) Solandra. 
Much branched, erect : 
Stout and rigid; corolla narrow-urceolate, 
2-23 lin. long ves vee see (335) Cooperi. 
Slender, subflexuous; corolla globose- , 
urceolate, 14 lin. long... ave ... (336) Baurii. 
Corolla glabrous : : 
Sepals filiform at the base, wider upwards ... (339) clavisepala. 
Sepals lanceolate or linear, not wider up- 
wards : 
Ovary villous or hispid ... ‘iis ... (334) Solandra. 
Ovary glabrous : 
Branches more or less flexuous : 
Branches numerous, slender ; 
heads 4-8-flowered .., ... (331) cernua. 
Branches few, stoutish ; heads 
10—23-flowered, 7-10 lin. in 
diam. owe sie ... (832) Maderi. 
Branches mostly straight, slender ; 
heads 6—28-flowered, 4-64 lin. in 
diam. vis sive + ss» (333) spherocephala. 
§ 25. PorypEsMra (Séellares, Klotzsch), Inflorescence terminal, capitate or 
subumbellate; flowers mostly corolline, rarely subcalycine. Bracts sepal-like, 
mostly approximate, rarely remote and minute. Sepals usually narrow, dry or 
rarely viscidulous. Corolla suburceolate, or ovoid, glabrous or nearly so, dry or 
viscidulous, 13-23 lin, long. Anthers exserted or subexserted, terminal or sub- 
terminal, muticous, toothed or decurrent-aristate. Style exserted. Ovary 
glabrous or hairy. Leaves 3-6-nate or scattered. Small shrubs. 
One species (HE. ustulescens) has the aspect of § Pyronium, having scarcely 
either capitate or umbellate flowers, but is retained here by reason of the 
similarity of its floral characters to those - the species of this section. 
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