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Calea, but both the species differ not only from them, but from 
the division to which they belong, in having a naked receptacle. 
This character, together with the want of ligulate florets, refers 
them to the subdivision ZuZeleniez, but in it I can meet with no 
genus to which they are naturally allied. They seem to con- 
stitute a connexion between the subdivisions Huheleniee and 
Eugalinsogeea. De Candolle accounts for the absence of paleæ in 
Calea? gentianoides, by supposing that the central florets are 
deficient, the few which exist being marginal ones; and such most 
likely is the case. I retain the sectional name given by De Can- 
dolle to his plant for that of the genus. 
4925. A. fruticosa; fruticosa, caulibus angulato-sulcatis fulvo- 
velutino-tomentellis ad apicem ramosis, foliis alternis sessilibus 
subrotundatis basi subcordatis crenato-dentatis penniveniis vel 
junioribus subtriplinerviis utrinque scabris subtus puberulis et 
valde reticulatis. 
Has. Open bushy places on the Serra das Araras, on the confines 
of the Province of Minas Geraés with that of Goyaz. June, 
1840. 
Frutex 3-pedalis. Caules plures ex eadem radice. Folia 23-3 
poll. longa, 2-23 poll. lata, subtus pallida. Capitula breviter 
pedicellata, subcylindrica. Involucrum 6 lin. longum, glabrius- 
culum, stramineum. Achenia 21 lin. longa, squamellis 14 lin. 
longis. 
A. gentianoides, Gardn.—Calea ? gentianoides, DC. Prodr. vol.5. 
p. 671. 
De Candolle does not state whether the leaves are opposite or 
alternate in this plant. 
Meryeria, DC. 
4244. M. teuerufolia; fruticosa ramosa, ramis teretibus striatis 
hirtellis, foliis breviter petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis acutis basi 
subcuneatis triplinerviis grosse crenato-serratis, serraturis 
utrinque 3—4 utrinque hirtellis, capitulis terminalibus breviter 
pedicellatis solitariis, involucri squamis exterioribus obtusis 
fohaceis hirtellis brevibus, intimis oblongis obtusis glabris, 
