Hingtsha, POLYGAMIA SEGREGATA. Bae |) 
stem-clasping, linear lanceolate, remotely serrate, a few dis- 
tinct, woolly hairs over the under side of the nerve chiefly, and 
marked with numerous glands; from one to two inches long. 
Flowers solitary, sessile, terminal, or in the divisions of the 
branchlets. Calyx, common, four-leaved, leaflets cordate, 
obtuse, the interior pair smaller, all are entire, smooth, fleshy 
and permanent. The partial calyx one-leaved, spathiform, 
enveloping the germ, open on the inside, where the margins 
overlap each other; mouth contracted, ciliate and divided. 
Corol compound, uniform, convex. Flores hermaphrodite, 
many in the disk ; the female ones margin the circumference; 
the hermaphrodite ones funnel-shaped, five-cleft; the females’ 
sub-ligulate, the inner fissure being much deeper; border 
very short, from three to four-toothed. Stamens in the her- 
maphrodite florets five, the anthers coalesced, Pis¢?d in all 
the germs oblong, and the stigma two-cleft, Pericarpium 
none, the calyx unchanged envelopes the oblong, smooth, 
black seed, which is destitute of crown or pappus. Recep- 
tacle flat, naked. 
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