220 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES. 
tente integro, persistente; disci autem hermaphroditi; corollæ! tubu- 
losæ limbo ampliato, 5-dentato. Fructus crassi v. 3-quetri, glabri v. 
tuberculati; pappo 0, v. ex aristis brevibus 4, 2 constante; interiores 
aunc alati. Cætera Zinnie. — Herbæ annuæ v. perennes, nunc basi 
suflrutescentes, humiles v. diffusæ; foliis oppositis integris; capitulis 
terminalibus stipitatis ; receptaculo plano v. convexo, paleis membra- 
naceis v. SCariosis Concavis v. complicatis inter flores onusto; involueri 
hemisphærici v. late campanulati bracteis pauciseriatis, apice siccis 
v. herbaceis ; extimis nunc paucis foliaceis patentibus. (Mexicum *.) 
278? Philaetis SCHRAD.* — « Flores 2-morphi ; radii fœminei fer- 
üles, 1-seriati ; corollæ ligulatæ limbo amplo, 3-dentato, persistente ; 
disei autem hermaphroditi steriles; corolla regulart, extus glandulosa. 
Antheræ basi integræ. Styli florum hermaphroditorum rami breviter 
appendiculati. Fructus radii obpyramidati, 3-goni, extus ligula per- 
sistente coronali, intus crasse aristati : disci (abortivi) inæquali-4-aris- 
tati.— Herba dichotoma, basi suffrutescens ; foliis oppositis ovalis 
serratis adpresse villosis, 3-5-plinerviis; capitulis in dichotomiis bre- 
viter peduneulatis ; receplaculo conico, paleis complicatis flores disci 
amplectentibus onusto; involucri campanulati bracteis imbricatis, 
2-seriatis!, » (MexicumS.) 
279. Meliopsis PERS. 5 — Flores ? 2-morphi ; radii fœminei, fertiles 
v. Steriles, 1-seriati; corollæ ligulatæ limbo patente sessili integro; 
disci autem hermaphroditi fertiles v. steriles; corollæ regularis limbo 
cylindraceo, 5-dentato. Antheræ basi integræ v. minute dentatæ. Styli 
rami obtusi hirti breviterque appendiculati. Fructus subteretes v. ob- 
tuse 3-4-goni ; pappo 0. — Herbæ perennes, ramosæ v. paludosæ radi- 
cantes; foliis oppositis, v. supremis alternis, petiolatis v. amplexicau- 
libus, sæpe 3-nerviis, plerumque dentatis ; capitulis solitariis v. paucis 
laxe Cymosis; receplaculo plus minus longe conico paleisque flores 
disci amplectentibus v. involventibus onusto; involucri hemisphærici 
1. Purpurascentis v. nigrescentis. 5. Spec. 1. P. zinnioides SCHRAD. 
2. Spec. 3, . CAv., Icon:; t: 351. — Bot. 6. Syn., II, 473. — Less., Syn., 223. - DC. 
Reg., t. 707. — Wazp., Ann., II, 869. Prodr., N, 550 (part.). — Enpi., Gen., n. 2506. 
D Ind. sem. Hort. gætt. (1831). — DC, — B. H., Gen., LI, 358, n. 357. — Kallias CASS 
rO8T., V, 554. — ENDL., Gen., n. 2492. —  jn Dict.. XXIV 32%6- XVI, 406, — Andrieuvit 
B. H., Gen., 11, 556, n. 35 D DA I, 
6, n. 354. …, Prodr., NV, 559; in Deless. Ic. sel. 
3% Genus (nobis omnino ignotum) forte ad +, 21. — END , Gen., n. 2517. 
Zinniam reducendum. 7. Flavi. 
