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Tabula 281G. 



STEVIA HEBAUDIANA, IfemsL 



COMPOSITAK. Tribus EUPATORIACEAK. 



S. Rebaudiana, Hemsl {sp, nov,) ; species S. colUnae similis, dilTert 



steatura graciliore, et foliis glabrosceiitibus augusbe lauceolatis conspicue 

 venoais. 



{fide 



Caul.es 



gracillimi, erecti, 30-45 cm. alti, praeter inflorescentiam simplices. 

 I^olia papyracea, subdisticha, spathulato-Ianceolata, 2-4 cm. longa, 

 et usque ad 1 cm. lata, obtusa, deorsum attenuata, baud distincte 

 petiolata, supra medium creuulata, glabrescentia, subtrinervia et 

 elevato-venosa, Capitula parva, 5-flora, racemoso-corymbosa, corymbis 

 pauciramosis, ramis pedunculisque gracillimis. Involucri bracteae 5, 

 tenues, scariosae, angustae, acutissimae, flores fere aequantes. Corolla 

 glandulosa ; lobi lati, obscure barbati, Antherae appendice obloaga 

 (^ ^ apice instructae. Achaenia parva, angulata, glandulosa. Pappi f^^fae 



circiter 20, filiforuies, scabridae, quam corollae tubus breviores. — • 

 Eupatoriiim liebaudianum, Bertoni in Boletino de la Escuela de 

 Agricultura de la Asuncion del Paraguay, vol. ii. (1S99), p. oo. 



Paraguay : Highlands of Araambai northward to the sources of 

 '>\ ^^>e Rio Monday, one of the tributaries of the Parana, in about 



^ 55° W. and 25^ 30' S., Bertoni ; Gosling. 



Early in 1901 Mr. Cecil AV. Gosling, H.B.M. Consul at Asuncion, 

 Paraguay, seuttoKew some fragments of a plant known by the names 

 of cad-ehe and azuca-cad^ tog^ether with Dr. Bertoni's description, to 

 which a reference is given above, and other information, all of which 

 is reproduced in the ' Kew Bulletin,' 1901, p. 173. Since then better 

 specimens, from the same source, have been received through Sir Daniel 

 Morris, Commissioner, Imperial Agricultural Department, Barbados, 

 West Indies, and from these the accompanying plate was drawn by 

 Miss M. Smith. The plant contains a large percentage of saccharine 

 matter, and has awakened considerable interest in cultivators of plants 

 for economic purposes. From time to time paragraphs have appeared 

 in the daily papei^s on this so-called sugar plant of South America ; 

 but so far as we know it has not yet been the object of experimental 

 cultivation. — AV. Bornxfi Hemslev. 



Fif^. 1, nn involnoml bract; 2, a flou-cr ; rj, ri bristle of the pappus; 1, anthers; 

 5. style. All enhvgrd. 



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