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The fmaller eredt Ekphantopus^ with the flowers diipofed at the 



alx of the upper leaves. 



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This plant is common in moft parts of y, 



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d rifes 



grows chiefly in open gravelly 



lly to the height of fifteen or twenty inches, fometimes more 



The common receptacles of the flowers rife fingly from the ala? of the upper leaves, and 



feem difpofed 



form of a fpike ; but we feldom find more than four blofToms 



eh of them. The feeds are, each, crowned with four little briftles. or fet 



ELEPHANTOPUS. 2. EreBus\ foliis oblongo- ovatis rugofis atque ferratis, 



jlorahbus cordiformibus ternatis ; capitulis remotis 

 terminalibus. 

 Elephantopus foliis integris ferratis. L. H. C. 

 - Scabiofa yavana. Bontii. 

 Scabiofae affinis anomala filvatica i Sec. Slo. Cat. 127. 6c H. t. 156. 



The upright Elephantopus, with large flower-heads. 



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This plant is not fo common as the foregoing, tho' frequent enough, in many 



places, on the north fide, of the ifland. It riles generally from half a foot, to three 

 or four, in height; and is generally adorned with a great number of flowers, ga- 

 thered into pretty large heads, at the extremities of the branches. The feeds are of 

 an oblong form, and crowned, each, with five little brilfles. The common foot-flalks- 

 are very long, and terminate the branches; but, at the feparations of them, you may 

 always obferve a fmaller head growing to the ftem, without any fupporter. 



This plant is a good vulnerary; and much ufed in confumptive cafes, among the 

 natives of yava y in the Eaft- Indies. The leaves are frequently ufed, inftead of 

 Cardials Benedibl us, among the inhabitants of the French iilands. 



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TRIXIS 1. Frutefcem, foliis nitidis ovatis dentatifque, foribus comofis. Tab. 



33- % 



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The fhrubby Trixfs. 



Periantium Duplex : exterius quadriphylhim ereftum majus, calycem com- 



munem involvens-, interius- e fquamis o5io circiter, lanceo- 

 latis, er e El i s , fubfinuat i s , in cylindrum agglutinatis, confiatum. 



Corollula? Unijbrmes, aquales, hermaphrodite: propria monopetala tu- 



bulata, in tres lacinias profunde J'eBa ; exterior ligulata pa- 

 tens tridentata\ interiores agglutinate, exteriori oppo/ite, 

 angufliores, revolutce. 



Stamina. Filamenta quinque : antherae in cylihdrum adnata. 

 " Piftillum. Germen oblongum •> flylus ereclus bifidus-, ftigmata tenuia. 



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emina 



Oblonga pappo capillari coronata : receptaculum nudum. 



This little fhrub is very common in the Savannas about King/Ion, and feldom 

 rifes above four or five feet in height. The common receptacles are difpofed at 

 the extremities of the branches; and the outward divifions of the flowers grow 

 gradually fmaller, and curl more downwards as they approach the center ; which 

 ;ives the whole fomething of the appearance of a radiated flower, at the firft ap- 



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pea ranee, 



STRUCHIUM 1. Herbaceum fubaffurgens, foliis oblongo- ovatis utrinque pro- 



dudlis, capitulis conflipatis ad alas. Tab. 34. f. 2. 





An, Cadelari. H. M. 



p. 10. 155 



The herbaceous Struchium^ with oblong leaves 



See Tab. 34., fig. 2. 



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