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reticulatis utrinque adpresse velutino-tomentosis canis, 

 ramis versus apicera nudis capitulo globoso compacto ter- 

 minatis, capitulis 2-3-floris oblongis, involucri squamis 

 lanceolatis acuminatis extus tomentosis, achsenio sericeo- 

 villoso. 

 Hab. Elevated grassy Campos between the Diamond Dis- 

 trict, and the Rio San Francisco. 



Suffrutex ramosus, 3-pedalis. Folia submembranacea, 

 venosa, venis utrinque prominulis, 3-3| poll, longa, 1| circiter 

 lata. Corolla violacea, lobis extus longe pilosis. Pappus 

 sordide albidus. 



When I published my paper on the genus Chresta, in the 

 first vol. of the London Journal of Botany, I laid this species 

 aside as a variety of C. spfusrocephala, DC, but on looking at 

 it again more particularly, I now find it to be an interme- 

 diate form between that species and C. pycnocephala, DC. 

 Decandolle is wrong in saying that the corolla of C. spharo- 

 cephala is glabrous, both it and C. pycnocephala, being 

 pilose as in the present species. 



Elephantopus, Cass. 



2643 et 4836. E. palustris ; caule erecto ramoso angulato 



hirto demum glabriusculo, foliis longe lanceolato-linearibus 



basi dilatatis amplexicaulibus apice attenuatis obtusis 



minute et distanter serratis utrinque parce hirtis et minute 



scrobiculatis, floralibus late cordato-orbiculatis acuminatis 



serratis reticulatis pellucido-punctatis villosis vel gla- 



bratis. 



Hab. In marshes near the city of Oeiras, Province of Piauhy, 



(n. 2643) ; and in moist places between the Rio Claro and 



San Roraao, in the Province of Minas Geraes, (n. 4836). 



Herba erecta, 2-2^-pedalis. Folia pennivenia, 6-8 poll. 



longa, 4-6 lin. lata. Capitula 4-flora, in glomerulum foliis 



cinctum dense adgregata. Involucrum compressum, bise- 



n ale, squamis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis subtrinervibus 



