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cartilagineo-membrauacea terminatae, basi bisetae : setis 

 inaequalibus, validiusculis, mucronatis, simplicibus. Stig- 

 mata linearia, truncata, revoluta, supra canaliculate, apice 

 parum dilatato, papilloso. Achenia teretiuscula v. com- 

 pressa : disco epigyno dilatato. Pappus persistans, pilo- 

 sus : radiis. duplici ordine copiosis, scabris, apice simpli- 

 cibus. 

 Herbae perennes. Flores solitarii, magni, rubri v. albi. 



* Caalescentes foliis indivisis. 



1. C. spathulata, foliis planis spathulatis. 

 Clarionia spathulata. Lag. Mss. 

 In Chili. Ruiz et Pavon.% . 



Herba caespitosa. Caulis pedalis, erectus, simplicissimus, ali- 

 quando ramulum unicum protrudit, uniflorus, filiformis, 

 glaber, crassitie pennae corvinee, apicem versus glandulis 

 pedicellatis copiosk ornatus. Folia radicalia fere omnino 

 Othonnce ckeirifolice, numerosa, spathulata, plana, coriacea, 

 margine integerrima v. crenulata, utrinque laete viridia, 

 glaberrima, subtus costa valid& venisque reticularis in- 

 structa, basin versus in petiolum attenuata, sesquipolli- 

 caria, ad laminam latitudine unguem adasquantia ; cau- 

 lina sparsa, plurimum minora, stricta, subadpressa, lingu- 

 lata, margine integerrima ac cartilaginea, basi dilatatd et 

 denticulata, unguicularia v. nunc (praesertim inferiora) fere 

 uncialia. Flos terminalis, solitarius. Involucrum triplici 

 ordine polyphyllum, imbricatum : squamis ligulatis, inte- 

 gerrimis, adpressis, minute glandulosis ; interioribus mu- 

 cronulatis, longioribus. Flosculi hermaphroditi, bilabiati, 

 albi ; labio exteriore longo, ligulato, obtuse tridenticulato, 

 4-nervio ; inter lore bipartito : segme?itis angustissimis, re- 

 volutis, binerviis. Anthera appendicula lineari, acuta, co- 



loratA, 



