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fr. cycloptera Br. Bot. Append., to Capt, SlurCs expedition into central 

 Iralia p. 2$. 



Slirpem non vidi, at suspicor ex peculiar! structura semioum, earn esse refe- 

 rendam ad Sect. Porphyranthus Don. 



43. G. RIGIDA. 



Suffruticosa, pubescenti-Janata vel demum glabriuscula, rauiis erectis, 

 rigidis, flexuosis, dichotome-ramosis ; foliis linearibus, radicalibus subbi- 

 dentatis, caulinis sparsis; calycibus glandulosis lobis acutis; corollac lo- 

 biaalatis; capsula biloculari. Pedicclli, axillares bracteati, pauciflori, vix 

 pollicares. Flores coerulei, 



G. rigida Bcnth. in Hugel. enum. 71. de Cnnd. VII. 516.. 

 Nov. I-Ioll. ad fl. Cygn, 



Descriptio specim. Preissiani : 



Herbae graciles, canescentes, strictae, rigidac, dichotome ramosae, 15-30 cntm. 

 longae et ultra, totae pilis patenlibus, brevibus hirto-puberulae; rami geniculati, 

 flexuosi. angulati et inter angulos sulcati ; inleruodia (uti folia) sensim apicem ver- 

 sus breviora ; folia infima, ut dicunt radicalia, valde clongala, angustissime liuea- 

 ria, margine involuta, indeque subteretia, 5-7 cnlm. longa, vix 1 mllm. lata, ima 

 basi aulem sensim dilatata et caulem araplectentia ct foliorum altiorum basin semi- 

 vaginantia, indeque pseudo-bulbum fere fingentia; superiora ramea, sensim ad apicem 

 rami progredicntia. breviora, sed conformia, solummodo basi haud lantopere dilata- 

 ta, et basin ne semi-qnidem amplectentia, 5.-1 cntm. longa, omnia margine in- 

 volula et (uli rami sed minus) asperula; pedunculi axillares, crecto-patentes, teretes, 

 fnlia sua superanles, 2-1 cnlm. longi, pariler hirto-aspcruli, paulo infra bibracteali, 

 uniflori; bracleae oppositae, minutae, angustissime lineari-subulalae, vix I mllm. 

 longiludine excedentes, persistentes ; florcs erecti, sat ampli, coerulei, 11-12 mllm. 

 longi ; calycis tubus germini adnatus, ovatus, 4 mllm. longus, 2 mllm. latus, den- 

 sissime glanduloso-tomentosus, e limbi laciniis decurrcntibus, levitcr costatus ; lim- 



