854 Mr. J. Miers on the Calyceracee. 
liberum ori tubi affixum connata; anthers lineares, imo breviter 
syngenesiz, superne liber; stylus apice mcrassatus, exsertus. 
Achenia spinigera pauca, cum plurimis inermibus intermixta, 
turbinata, profunde 5-angulata, 2 lin. long., spinis 5 (quarum 
2 seepe brevioribus), 3 poll. long., patentissimis, subulatis, su- 
perne sulcatis, acutissime pungentibus, stramineis, imo incras- 
satis et denticulatis ; inermia plurima, pleraque centralia, 14 lin. 
long., 1 lin. diam., profunde sulcata, angulis 5, levibus, convexis 
*et dentibus calycinis minimis concavis superatis, apice conico, 
corolla persistente 2—3-plo longiore seepius terminata ; in externa 
serie pauca, inermia, corolla persistente reliquis breviore (eujus 
stamina emasculata) apicata*. 
4. Anomocarpus pulvinatus ;—Calycera pulvinata, Remy, Ann. 
Se. Nat. 3° sér. vi. 352; Walp. Ann. ii. 882 ; Weddell, Chl. 
And. ii. 6, tab. 43 B ;—acaulis et ceespitosus, pusillus, glaber- 
rimus ; foliis radicalibus, paucis, radiatis, rhomboideo-ob- 
longis, squarroso-laciniatis, laciniis irregularibus, obtusis, 
calloso-mucronatis, imo in petiolum elongatum deplanatum 
spathulatis, crasso-carnosis, e basi 5-nerviis ; capitulis numero 
foliorum, imo petiolorum fere sessilibus, et in orbem pulvi- 
natum dense glomeratis, simgulatim breviter involucratis ; in- 
volucris gamophyllis, 5-7-partitis, singulis capitella 4-8 ite- 
rumque involucellata claudentibus ; involucellis gamophyllis, 
profunde 5—7-partitis; receptaculo minimo, epaleaceo; floribus 
6-10, longe exsertis; involucris involucellisque fructiferis, 
demum valde auctis et tune arcte consociatis; achzeniis ex- 
terioribus inermibus, unico centrali in quoque involucello 
semper spinescente.— Bolivia, v. s. in herb. Mus. Paris. ; 
grand plateau des Andes, Prov. Carangas (Pentland, spec. 
fructif.) ; circa Laguna, Potosi (Weddell, spec. florif.). 
_ Planta pusilla, inclusis foliis radiantibus 2-3 poll. diam. ; 
pulvinus capitulorum, etate florali, 10-12 lin. diam., e capitulis 
16-20 crebriter aggregatis ; folia circiter 16-20, omnia radicalia 
(incluso petiolo sublongiore) 1-1# poll. long., et inclusis laciniis 
6 lin. lat. ; petiolus imo submembranaceus, 1 lin. lat.; capitula 
3-84 lin. diam., subglobosa ; pulvinus capitulorum, zetate fructi- 
fera, 24-8 poll. diam. ; involucra subsessilia, pateriformia, 7-10 
lin. diam., 3 lin. alta, imo plana et gamophylla, foliolis 7-9, hine 
liberis, erectiusculis, subimbricatis, obovato-oblongis, margine 
denticulatis, membranaceis, reticulato-venosis; imvolucella in 
singulo involucro sepius 8 (forsan e paleis inter se in verticillum 
imo accretis), breviter pedicellata ; pedicellus complanatus, 1 lin. 
long. et lat.; tubus gamophyllus, 2 lin. diam., 1 lin. alt., foliolis 
* A drawing of this species, with analytical details, is given in Plate 48 c. 
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