288 Mr.D. Dow's Descriptions of new Genera and Species 
libus, obtusis: appendicula terminalis brevis, ligulata, car- 
tilaginea, emarginata! Stigma bilamelloso-partitum, cum 
stylo apice minute papillosum, scabriusculum : lobis planis, 
mucronulatis. Achenia undique villosissima, fulva. Pappus | 
fulvus, mollissimus : radiis plumosis, apice mucronulatis, : 
imá basi crassioribus, nudis et connatis, simplici ordine di- 
gestis. 
4. C. latifolia, foliis ovatis acutis trinerviis, spinis inzequalibus, 
floribus racemoso-corymbosis, involucri squamis intimis 
revolutis. 
In Brasilià. Sello. » . 
Frutex ramosus, spinosus. Rami cylindrici, leviter sulcati, cor- 
tice fusco-cinereo obducti. . Folia alterna, petiolata, ovata, 
v. ovato-oblonga, acuta, integerrima, trinervia, reticulatim 
venosa, submembranacea, basi latá rotundaté, raró parüm 
in petiolum decurrentia; palmaria, fer& bipollicem lata, 
utrinque demüm glabrata ; juniora tamen cum ramulis no- 
vellis villis adpressis fulvescentibus subsericea. Spine ax- 
illares, geminz, inzquales, subulate, rigide, divaricate, 
sæpiùsque deflexze, basi coadunate, trilineares ; altero bre- 
-o iore... | ietioli brevissimi, a cessa basi 
lic campanulata: squa- 
mis mri ME oiiaii, ben FiGalE, coriaceis, ad- 
pressè imbricatis; intimis elongatis, radium efformantibus, 
revolutis. Receptaculum magis dilatatum, copiosè pilosum. 
ai inadilotcuds indefiniti, omnes regulares, hermaphroditi, tubulosi, 
ji cei, inferne vix attenuati: segmentis linearibus, 
.:sequalibus, canaliculatis, binerviis, apice barbatis : 
fau uce nios villosà. - Stamina brevissima, sub fauce inclusa : 
— filamenta 
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