418 CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS A 
Herba perennis. Radix lignosa. Caules plures, sesquipedales. 
Folia 23-5 poll. longa, 3 lin. lata, reticulata, venis utrinque pro- 
minulis.  Involucrum 6 lin. longum. Receptaculum planum. 
Corolle flavæ, radii ligulate, ligulis 10 circiter late oblongis 
obtusis 3-dentatis, disci tubulose, 5-fide. Styli rami exappendi- 
culati. Pappi paleæ 20, achzenio paulo longiores. 
Near C. uniflora, Less. 
3289. C. longifolia ; caule simplici erecto tereti striato hirsuto 
basi folioso superne longe aphyllo, foliis oppositis sessilibus 
longe lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis trinerviis supra medium 
dentatis utrinque villosis, capitulo solitario terminali radiato, 
involucri campanulati squamis exterioribus ovatis obtusis striatis 
glabris, intimis oblongis obtusissimis glabris, paleis anguste 
linearibus acuminatis, acheniis angulatis hispidis, pappi paleis 
anguste lineari-lanceolatis ciliatis. 
Has. Dry Campos near Natividade, Province of Goyaz. Dec. 
1839. 
Herba perennis. Radix lignosa. Caules plures, sesquipedales. 
Folia 4-+ poll. longa, 74 lin. lata, reticulata, venis utrinque pro- 
minulis. Receptaculum planum. Corolle flavæ, radii ligulate, 
ligulis lineari-oblongis 4-dentatis, disci tubulosæ, 5-fidæ. Styli 
rami exappendiculati. Pappi paleæ 20, achænio paulo longiores. 
This, it must be confessed, comes very near the last species, 
agreeing with it in habit, but differing in its opposite, not verti- 
cillate, leaves, which, besides, though very little longer, are nearly 
three times broader, and coarsely dentate. The achænia and 
pappus are also slightly different. 
Sect. LEONTOPHTHALMUM. 
4926 (bis.) C. tomentosa ; caule simplici erecto tereti striato vil- 
loso basi folioso longe superne aphyllo, foliis oppositis sessi- 
libus ovalibus obtusis basi euneatis trinerviis grosse crenato- 
dentatis utrinque cinereo-hirtello-tomentosis, capitulo solitario 
terminali radiato, involucri campanulati squamis exterioribus 
late ovatis obtusis foliaceis hirtello-tomentosis, intimis oblongis 
obtusis membranaceis glabris, paleis anguste linearibus acumi- 
