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16. LIPOCHAETA, De Cand. 
Flower-heads hemispherical, heterogamous, radiate. Involucral bracts 
herbaceous to coriaceous, 2-se riate, 4—7 in each row, of nearly equal 
height. Receptacle plano-convex, its paleae stiff, cuneate, folded round 
or 2—3-toothed. Dis wers Fe a the outer ones fertile, their 
corollae with a short narrow tube and a campanulate 5-toothed limb. 
nthers minutely sagittate. Style bulbous at PA base, its branches linear- 
obtuse, and in the disk-flowers with a conical appendage. Achenes 
obovate, those of the ray trigonous, of the disk compressed, with sharp, 
often winged or eroded angles, the obtuse ie surrounded by a coronula 
of hairs or stiff scalelets. Pappus of 3 or 2, rare ly 4 or 1 short awns or 
teeth (in one species ie. around a narrow epigynous disk. — 
Perennial herbs with woody base, mostly scabrous or canescent with 
stiff hairlets. Leaves opposite, entire, lobed or pedately cut, with the 
segments pinnatisect. Inflorescence a terminal simple or compound cym 
with the median ray or peduncle little shorter than the lateral ones, 
often reduced to a single peduncle and flower-head. Corollas of disk 
and ray yellow 
A genus of 12 species, one of which belongs to the ci Islands, nearly related 
pair 
to the American genus Zexmenia and to Wedelia. Characteristic is a r of prominent 
nerves, which in the sessile leaves is abou third nti the Sans and leaves the 
at a le than the others, sending backv one or more ng 
8 the petiolate leaves that part of the bla which oe below this pai 
pickle, in consequence of which they appear triplinerved bed leaves these 
herves determine the direction of the sinuses or slits. — Nat. name vo all species: «Nehe>. 
Leaves entire: 
sie, Pigeon! clasping; cyme compound, foliose : : : 1. L. connata. 
petio 
ova = 
rounded 7 the base, with ray not margined, scabrous; 
ey: mple or compoun nd F 
con t the b a pe tiol , fleshy smooth; 
inflor. a single flower-head 
corda ste he! Fake si at the base, the petiole not / margined 
e or compound 
iitbohate, yaa ed; inflor. eymose 
linear, RN nerved; inflor. a single head 
Leaves palmately lobed: 
ff scabrous, ern 
with clasping base, oblong or basinly lobed . L 
pero thay in outline, 3—5-lobed L 
thin herbaceous, sma. : 
sessile; ulti ate aves cuneate; cyme simple 10. L. micrantha. 
L 
L 
bo 
. calycosa. 
. succulenta, 
. davarum. 
DL 
L 
. L. subcordata. 
L 
L. integrifolia. 
a Ot 
. hastata. 
. lobata. 
1+ es | 
sessile; ultimate en linear-: filifo ‘orm ; infl. a single flower- j 
; 1. L. tenuifolia. 
petiolate; ltimat t t impl pound 9. L. Remyi. 
