354 Mr. J. Miers on the Calyceracese. 



liberum ori tubi affixum connata ; antherse lineares, imo breviter 

 syngenesise, superne liberse ; stylus apice incrassatus, exsertus. 

 Achsenia spinigera pauca, cum plurimis inermibus intermixta, 

 turbinata, profunde 5-angulata, 2 lin. long., spinis 5 (quarura 

 2 ssepe brevioribus), 3 poll, long., patentissimis, subulatis, su- 

 perne sulcatis, acutissime pungentibus, stramineis, imo incras- 

 satis et denticulatis ; inermia plurima, pleraque centralia, 1^ lin. 

 long., 1 lin. diam., profunde sulcata, angulis 5, lsevibus, convexis 

 et dentibus calycinis minimis concavis superatis, apice conico, 

 corolla persistente 2-3-plo longiore ssepius terminata ; in externa 

 serie pauca, inermia, corolla persistente reliquis breviore (cujus 

 stamina emasculata) apicata*. 



4. Anomocarpus pulvinatus; — Calycera pulvinata, Remy, Ann. 

 Sc. Nat. 3 e ser. vi. 352; Walp. Ann. ii. 382; WeddeU, Chi. 

 And. ii. 6, tab. 43 b ; — acaulis et csespitosus, pusillus, glaber- 

 rimus ; foliis radicalibus, paucis, radiatis, rhomboideo-ob- 

 longis, squarroso-laciniatis, laciniis irregularibus, obtusis, 

 calloso-mucronatis, imo in petiolum elongatum deplanatum 

 spathulatis, crasso-carnosis, e basi 5-nerviis ; capitulis numero 

 foliorum, imo petiolorum fere sessilibus, et in orbem pulvi- 

 natum dense glomeratis, singulatim breviter involucratis ; in- 

 volucris gamophyllis, 5-7-partitis, singulis capitella 4-8 ite- 

 rumque involucellata claudentibus ; involucellis gamophyllis, 

 profunde 5-7-partitis; receptaculo minimo, epaleaceo; noribus 

 6-10, longe exsertis; involucris involucellisque fructiferis, 

 demum valde auctis et tunc arete consociatis; acbseniis ex- 

 terioribus inermibus, unico centrali in quoque involucello 

 semper spinescente.— Bolivia, v. s. in herb. Mus. Paris. ; 

 grand plateau des Andes, Prov. Carangas (Pentland, spec, 

 fructif.); circa Laguna, Potosi (Weddell, spec, florif.). 



Planta pusilla, inclusis foliis radiantibus 2-3 poll, diam.; 

 pulvinus capitulorum, setate florali, 10-12 lin. diam., e capitulis 

 16-20 crebriter aggregatis ; folia circiter 16-20, omnia radicalia 

 (incluso petiolo sublongiore) 1— If poll, long., et inclusis laciniis 

 6 lin. lat. ; petiolus imo submembranaceus, 1 lin. lat. ; capitula 

 3-3^ lin. diam., subglobosa ; pulvinus capitulorum, setate fructi- 

 fera, 2^-3 poll. diam. ; involucra subsessilia, pateriformia, 7-10 

 lin. diam., 3 lin. alta, imo plana et gamophylla, foliolis 7-9, hinc 

 liberis, erectiusculis, subimbricatis, obovato-oblongis, margine 

 denticulatis, membranaceis, reticulato-venosis ; involucella in 

 singulo involucro ssepius 8 (forsan e paleis inter se in verticillum 

 imo accretis), breviter pedicellata ; pedicellus complanatus, 1 lin. 

 long, et lat. ; tubus gamophyllus, 2 lin. diam., 1 lin. alt., foliolis 



* A drawing of this species, with analytical details, is given in Plate 48 c. 



