48 : ICONES PLANTARUM. 
laxe 3-5-cephali, tenues, foliis multo Hae erie Involucra Jate cam- 
piihlota v. subhe remisphericn 5 lin. diametro. ractee pauciseriate, 
r 
4 tags latere interiore in aristam productus swpe lineam longam 
in achenio decurrente appendiculatam, caterum breviter 
8 
f 
palencens, = rarius latere exteriore in aristam brevem pro- | 
duc 
s.—G. Bent 
Fig. 1. Floret of the ray. 2. Summit of its style. 3. Floret of the disk. 4. Three 
of its anthers. 5, Summit of its style. 
Puate 1154. 
HYMEN IUM MEXICANUM, Benth. 
Composira, Tribe HELIaANTHOIDER VERBESINER. 
iene sue Benth. in Benth. et Hook. Gen. Pl. ii. 382. 
H. mexi icanum, Benth, é foliis ovatis Aacutis oo corymbo bas 
foliato, pappi sq shale beayineteta 
Has. Mexico, Cordova Valley, Bourgeau, n. 1932. 
Herba? v. suffrutex? glaber v.apice minute cano-puberulus, cauleerecto 
ramoso haud crasso, apex florifer in speciminibus u ultrapedalis. Folia 
opposita, pe = distantia, summa floralia alterna, sae 3, polli- 
cari falta -polli- 
caria SouDrueAbe 7a ic ee floralia ad ae soduacdie ae 
minora. Peduwneuli in axillis superioribus foliis paullo longiores, 
i 
ormes. Involucra hand late campanulata, vix 3 lin. longa, bracteis 
pauciseriatis imbricatis acutis striatis, exterioribus gradatim brevio- 
ibus. teceptaculi paler bracteis involucri similes nisi gradatim 
tenuiores floresque amplectentes. Flores vedit- 8-10, neutri, lamina 
] 
flava patente subintegra ad 2 lin. longa; disci plurimi involucro’ 
5-fido. Achenia a latere compressa nigra, parce pilosula. Pappi 
quamella minimee denticulat, 2 paullo majores, 1-2 minimis seepius 
utrinque interpositi 
The second species of this genus from New Grenada, Linden, n. 1393, 
mentioned in the Genera Plantarum, may be thus characteris ed -— 
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