of the Class Composifce. 271 



spathulato-oblongi, obtus^ tridentato, multinervio, labello 

 interiore aucti, hujus laciniae lineares, erecte, brevissimse, 

 staminibus sterilibus ; disci circiter 30, tubxilato-bilabiati : 

 tiibo 5-angulo : labiis revolutis ; exteriore ligulato, obtusfe tri- 

 dentato ; interiore bipartite : segmentis linearibus, obtusis, 

 revolutis, binerviis. Stamina tubo inserta : filamenta com- 

 pressa, pubescentia, apice articulata. Anthera exsertae, in 

 tubum coalitae, appendicul^ ligulato obtusd callosa coro- 

 natae, basi bisetosae : setis longis, compressis, canaliculatis, 

 basi ramosis, nunc rariiis bipartitis. Stylus 5-angulus, basi 

 clavatus, glaber. Stigma bilobum : lobis brevissimis, obtu- 

 sis, minutfe papillosis. Achenia ancipiti-compressa, leviter 

 quadrangula, glabra : disco epigyno dilatato, planiusculo. 

 Pappus sordide cinereus : radiis simplici ordine copiosis, 

 contiguis, plumosis, basi dilatatis, apice mucronulatis. 



Specimens of this Mutisia were collected in the neighbourhood 

 of Valparaiso by Mr. Thomas Bridges, an enterprising young bo- 

 tanist, from whose exertions we may confidently expect many va- 

 luable additions to the Chilian Flora, Mr, Bridges informs me 

 that the plant flowers in October, and that the rays are pink, 



**** Foliis simpUcibus, integerrimis. 

 10. M. injlexa, foliis deflexis perangustis cirrhosis, involucri 



squamis appendiculatis. 

 Mutisia inflexa. Cav. Ic. 5, p. Q5. t. 496, Willd. Sp. PL 3. 



p. 2070. Hook. Bot. Misc. 1. p.Q- t. 6. 

 M, subulata. Ruiz et Pavon Syst. Veg. Fl. Peruv. et Cliil. i. 



p. 193. 

 M. linearifolia. Hook. I. c. p. 1\. t. 8. non Cav. 

 In Chili in sylvis arenosis prope urbem Conceptionis (Ruiz et 



Pavoji) \ ad Valparaiso et Cucha-Cucha, Ludovicus NSe. i? . 



Caulis suffruticosus, scandens, teres, flexuosus, ramosissimus, ut 

 VOL. XVI. 2 N et 



