.984 Mr. D. Dow's Descriptions of new Genera and Species 
5-partiti: tubo pentagono, 5-nervio, substantia crassiore, ex- 
tùs et intàs dense fulvo-villoso, limbo ter breviore: segmentis 
linearibus, villoso-plumosis, apice penicillatis, strictis, basi 
latiore planis, nervis marginalibus prominulis, margine su- 
perné involutis: villis fulvis. Stamina disco epigyno cum 
corollà inserta: filamenta linearia, angustissima, compla- 
nata, ferè membranacea, nervo manifestissimo, basi parüm 
latiore, imo tubo corollae adherentia: anthere in tubum 
angustum coalite, longitudine 8-lineares, appendicula li- 
neari-ligulatà obtusA antherá ipsá dimidio breviori cartila- 
gineà coronate, basi bisetee: setis aequalibus, compressis, 
validis, sulco exaratis, 2 lineas longis, extremitate filamen- 
tosá, spirali, retroflexà. Stylus glaber, 5-angulus, basi in- 
crassata. Stigmata lineari-lingulata, obtusa, facie interiori 
canaliculata, cum superiore parte styli atomis resinosis co- 
piosissimis ornata, conniventi-applicata. Achenia turbinata, 
undique fulvo-villosissima, hinc convexa, inde biangulata. 
Pappi radiis pluribus (20—24) valdé plumosis, inzequalibus, 
inferne crassioribus, simplici ordine digestis, ima basi con- 
. natis, apice simplici setaceo, brevi: ramulis persistentibus. 
Obs.—Tabula Lamarckiana, errore pictoris, tubum antherarum 
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pe: pass without healindion, smiled: the Chuguiraga i insignis and 
minada. being fully persuaded that the characters relied on, 
as marks of distinction, are of too transitory a nature to justify 
the separation of two plants otherwise so much alike. In the 
Lambertian herbarium are two specimens of C. insignis from 
M. Bonpland himself, with the branches thickly clothed with 
: "n ~ "ed. the. young leaves slightly villous, which cir- 
es regarded by him as ——— the more 
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