51* 



Mejico, pr. el banco. Jan. 1839: C. Ehrenberg n. 939. 

 Obs. Eandem in Mejici prov. Oaxaca prius legit Som- 

 mersehu! Carlsrulianus. 



Div. II. ELEPHANTOPEAE Cass. — Less. — DC. pr. Y. 



p. 85. 



Genera 3 lmj us divisionis, nerape: Ele^hantopus Ca99., 

 Elephantosis Less. et Distreptus Cass. a cl. DC. 1. c. enu- 

 merata et secunduin pappnm fonnata, duce cl. Gaertner, End- 

 licher aliisque ut subgencra agnosco. 



Sectio I. Eu e lephant o pn s Endl. gen. n. 2231. 



Achaenia coluinuari -clavala i. e. inferne attennata, sn- 

 perne dilatata, apice panlo attracta, 10-costata, inter coslas 

 plus minusve hirta, pilis adpressis qandoque tarn confertis ut 

 superne pappura externum brevem forment, quandoque vero 

 glabrescentia et superne tantura pilis sparsis instrueta. Pap- 

 pus 1-serialis, persistens e paleis compositus n. 5 (rarius — 

 8) rectis, setaeeis, denticulatis, basi in scariositatem expansis 

 triangulari -lauceolatnin, margiue denticulato -ciliatam, achae- 

 nii longitudinem subaequantem. — Herbae Americac calidae 

 Tel Indiae orieutalis, 2J. vel bienues, polymorphae, plus rai- 

 nusve strigoso -hirtae, dichotome corymbosae, glomerulis po- 

 lycephalis terrainalibus. 



§. 1. Corolla glabra DC. pr. V. p. 86. — In Linnaea 

 XVIII. p. 594. jam monui species 5 Candollei primas vix 

 speeifice diiFcrre. Variant eniin formae hie enuraeratae rai- 

 ruin in inoduin quoad indiimentura , ramificationem, foliorum 

 dispositionem notasque alias: 



Huc etiam spectat: Elcphantopus ciliatus Zollinger et 

 Moritzi! in syst. Verz. p. 69. in oryzetis et ad vias prope 

 Tjikoya Javae lectus: Zollinger! pl. Javae ex9. n. 7. Planta 

 est bipedalis, villoso -shig-osa , snbeaupscens, rhizoinate 2J.. 



