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leaves. Flowers in corymb-iikc panicles,' terminat- 

 ing the branches, a pretty mixture of white and 

 red, florets five-fold. Leaves without order, pe- 

 tioled, obovate, widely serrated ; entire towards 

 the base. Seeds live, crowned with a hairy pap- 

 pus, seated on the naked receptacle. 



On the sides of the mountains between J^osah and 

 Belkate, a small tree, with black fissured bark, ir- 

 regular crooked branches. Leaves about the 

 ends of the branches without order, petioled, ellip- 

 tical, one-nerved, entire, about six inches long, 

 white beneath, with a dense cottonj^ down, smooth 

 above ; petioles and peduncles, downy, like the 

 leaves. Flowers in cymes terminating the branches, 

 possessing the following characters. Calyx ob- 

 long, formed of about twelve unequal imbricated 

 lance-shape scales, increasing in size from the 

 base, the interior series much longer, erect, and 

 retaining the florets. Corol compound, tubular ; 

 corollets hermaphrodite, constantly four equal. 

 Proper, tubular, slender, longer than the calyx ; 

 border five-cleft ; laciniaj long, linear. Stanjens, 

 pist, &c. as in the genus Cacatia. Seeds solitary, 

 oblong, attenuated at the base, silky pappus hairy, 

 stiff, erect, the length of the stamens. It conies 

 nearest to the genus Cacalia, and to C. Asekpia- 

 dea. 



Leontodon taraxacum. — On the high mountains near 

 Chichooa. 



Hijpochoeris-glabj^a z.x\i\ HypocJioeris-radiata. — On the 

 mountains about Teyka-ka-Maanda and Chichooa. 



SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA. 



Lobelia Kalmii. — On the sides of the mountains near 

 Dosa. 



Viola-paliistris. — On the sides of the mountains be- 

 tween Adzoaanee and Tei/ka-ka-Maanda. 



Jmpatiens Noti-tangere. — In the bed of the Koa-Jiul- 

 lahy a showy handsome plant, now in flower. 



GINANDRIA 



