252 Mr.D. Dox’s Descriptions of new Genera and Species 
5-partito ; marginales non radiantes, limbo irregulari, ob 
laciniam quintam (interiorem) profundiüs sejunctam, indè 
quasi bilabiati: segmentis linearibus, obtusis, subsecundis, 
canaliculatis, nervis prominulis, summo apice confluenti- 
bus. Filamenta lineari-angustissima, compressa, glabra. 
Anthere semi-exserte, in tubum connate, appendiculá 
lineari-lanceolatà, obtusá, coriaceá, rigidà, ipsá antherá 
breviore coronate, basi longè biaristatz: aristis lineari- 
bus, setaceo-acuminatis, canaliculatis, antherá longioribus, 
eequalibus. Stylus filiformis, basi bulbosus. Stigma mas- 
culis pentagonum! obtusum, indivisum ; ligulis tereti-cla- 
vatum, leve, exsertum ; foemineis bipartitum, exsertum : 
lobis lineari-lingulatis, obtusis, pruinosis, perszpé spira- 
liter convolutis. Achenia lineari-oblonga, compressa, gla- 
berrima. Pappus masculis cinereus, caducus: radiis inz- 
qualibus, paleaceo-setaceis, complanatis, longissimis, den- 
ticulis spinulosis- exasperatis, apice acuto, nunc subpeni- 
cilato, infra medium flexuosis, simplici tanttm ordine 
digestis ; foemineis capillaris, persistens, albus: radiis tri- 
plici serie confertissimis, denticulato-scabris, longioribus 
basi latiore subpaleaceá. | 
Frutices niveo-lanati. Folia alterna, petioláta, integra. Flores 
- termi T rui per: xelitarii,.: gii. gage, ruc. 
NUES a Siatevérs Faea et geni 
raros esse dioicos in hac familia: 
This is without doubt the most remarkable genus of the whole 
family. It is dicecious, and, in the structure of the capitula and 
pappus of the male and female flowers, it differs as much as 
Antennaria. The male capitula are very much smaller, and 
besides the- nale florets of which they are composed, there is a 
single series of ligulate florets, either with or without pistilla, 
and 
-= i huie imposuit, ol ob flores 
