178 Mr. D. Don’s Descriptions of new Genera and Species 
OREOPHILA. 
Hypocueripis sP., Kunth. 
Pappus plumosus, sessilis. Involucrum imbricatum. 
Involucrum subrotundum, polyphyllum, imbricatum: squamis 
lanceolatis, obtusis, membranaceis ; exterioribus apice la- 
nuginosis. Receptaculum paleatum : paleis lanceolatis, sca- 
riosis, uninerviis, acumine longo, setaceo instructis. Flos- 
culi lineari-ligulati: tubo tenui, ligula 5-dentaté, 6-nerviá, 
dupló longiore. Anthere appendiculà ligulatà, membra- 
naceà coronatz, basi dentibus 2, lanceolatis, acuminatis, 
membranaceis, zqualibus .munite. Stigmata filiformia, 
recurvata, minutissime papillosa. Achenia oblonga, an- 
cipiti-compressa, levia. Pappus sessilis: radiis simplici 
serie contiguis, filamentoso-plumosis, validis, inzequalibus, 
basi crassiore persistentibus. | 
Herba perennis, caspitosa, acaulis. Radix fusiformis, cortice 
fusco obducta, digiti minoris crassitie. Folia numerosa, in 
orbem acta, humifusa, petiolata, linearia, tunc lanceolata, 
obtusa, obtusé sinuato-dentata, coriacea, suprà glabra, subtus 
sed pracipué ad costam mediam pilosa, 2—3-pollicaria. Flos 
solitarius, sessilis, í in doliorum medio Filet, magnus, aureus. 
Pappus cinereus. exl mee 
Herba locis alpinis incola, unde ; nomen ab. opos, opeos, mons, et 
« po, amo, i. e. planta i in montibus florescens. IIT 
1. O. sessiliflora. | 
Hypochoeris sessiliflora. Kunth in H. et B. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 
Liv. p. 2. | 
In Peruviz summis alpibus Cordilleras de los Andes Hispa- 
nice dictis. Ruiz et Pavon. y . 
The uniform sessile pappus has Jed me to d this plant as 
constituting | 
