264 Mr. D. Don’s Descriptions of new Genera and Species 
lobum, lobis obtusiusculis, minuté papillosis. Achenia ra- 
diis quadrangula, glabra; disco compressa, levia. Pappus 
fulvellus, mollissimus, plumosus. 
3. M. acuminata, glabra; foliolis multijugis, involucro pyrami- 
dali lanuginoso; squamis exterioribus ovatis reflexis, caule 
teretiusculo. 
Mutisia acuminata. Ruiz et Pavon Syst. Veg. Fl. Peruv. et 
Chil. i. p. 192. 
In preruptis, collibus et sepibus Tarmz et Haurocheri ubi- 
que. Ruiz. 5. | | | 
Planta frutescens, 6-pedalis. Caulis scandens, ramosissimus, 
glaber, fragilis, tereti-angulatus. Folia alterna, pinnata, 
cirrho furcato terminata: foliola lanceolata, acuminata, 
integerrima, glabra, sessilia: extima minora, subacinaci- 
formia, leviter decurrentia. Pedunculi terminales, foliosi, 
uniflori, folio oppositi. Calyx pyramidalis, ovato-oblongus, 
imbricatus, lanuginosus, extus coloratus: squamis 24, con- 
cavis; erferioribus ovatis, reflexis ; interioribus lanceolato- 
cuneiformibus. X Corolluie plures in disco hermaphrodite, 
flammee ; feminee septem in radio, auree v. flavae. Pappus 
plumosus. Ruiz Mss. | 
Qasi i Maii line chinculma. ninguna Floret Maio et Julio. 
There "hers no specimen of this: species in ithe: Hoenn of 
Ruiz and Pavon, and as the plant has been only known by the 
short specific character contained in the work above-quoted, I 
have thought that the above description, derived from the ma- 
ipis: € Egit might not prove unacceptable to my botanical 
— SEGU 
4. M. drac REG m: foliolis. subseptemjugis, higli 
squamis 
