234 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES. 
303. Espeletia Mur.! — Flores® 2-morphi ; radii fæminei fertiles, 
4, 2-seriati; corollæ ligulatæ limbo patente, sæpe 2, 3-dentato; disei 
autem regulares hermaphroditi steriles ; corollæ tubulosæ limbo 5-fido, 
Antheræ basi minute acuminato-auriculatæ. Stylus florum hermaphro- 
ditorum indivisus. Fructus disci vacui; radu crasse obovoidei, 3-4-goni 
v. compressiusculi, epapposi. — Herbæ perennes, altissimæ v. humiles, 
nunc frutices v. arbores; indumento plerumque denso, tomentoso 
v. lanato; foliis alternis v. oppositis elongatis integris, sæpe crassis, 
sub indumento transverse parallele nervosis ; papibilis? solitaritt laxe 
corymbiformi-cymosis; involueri henisphærici v. late campanulati 
bracteis inæqualibus, 2-3-seriatim imbricatis ; interioribus tenuio- 
ribus. (America austr. andina.*) 
304. Silphium L.5— Flores® 2-morphi; radii fœminei fertiles, 
1-2-seriati; corollæ ligulatæ limbo patente, integro v. paucidentato; 
disei autem hermaphroditi steriles; corollæ regularis limbo breviter 
9-fido v. 5-dentato. Antheræ basi obtusæ integræ v. minute dentatæ. 
Stylus florum hermaphroditorum indivisus, sæpius papilloso-hirtus ; 
fœmineorum sæpius 2-ramosus. Fructus subteres v. a dorso valde com- 
pressus v. 3-gonus, marginibus acutus v. alatus, aut inter bracteam 
subtendentem et paleam interiorem subinclusus basique cum iis plus 
minus coalitus, aut ab is liber, epapposus v. setis paucis coronatus. — 
Herbæ” sæpius perennes v. basi radicantes nuncve frutescentes, scabræ* 
v.rarius glabratæ, nunc hirsutæ ; foliis alternis , oppositis v. verticillatis, 
integris, dentatis v. rarius pinnatifidis; capitulis ? hemisphæricis v. late 
campanulatis, solitariis v. in cymas corymbiformes, nunc foliatas, 
disposilis; involucri hemisphærici v. laituscule subcampanulati brac- 
teis paucis v. æ; exterioribus nunc paucis herbaceis v. subfoliaceis#’; 
receptaculo plano v. convexiusculo bracteis concavis v. complicatis 
PE re “ 11, t, 70-72. — 6. Flavi. 
DC., rom cs arr .: Gen: n, À am 7. Succo nunc resinoso 
mr H., Gen 1, 347, — Liba à Basi pilorum nunc cretacea rugosa. 
qu ERNST, in \ Vrgaia Te 186 cg HW) . Amplis v. mediocribus. _—. 
« Fla ù eu forte sectiones (sæpe male limi- 
. Magnis Ÿ: has ribus. tatæ) s 
4. Le se LH, Rel. his, 1, 645 (Trixis). Mn Gen.,n. 987. — DC., Prodr., Ÿ 
ve à gen. el spec Ph 280, 289 515. — GæRTN., Fruct., Il, 429. — ENDL:, Gen 
(Bailerie). — DG.; Prodr.,X, 507, 14 (Cli- 415. — B. H., Gen, , 946, n. 323. Es 
badium ?). — WED.., Chlor. andin. x 62, t. 15.  Polymniastrum Lau, IL, t. 712 — Alymna 
— Bot. Mag., t. 4480 NECK., Elem 31 (ex an enr volueri lati 
Re Gen., n. 986. —J., Gen , 188.— ÇCass., in  bracteis sæpe fo fo “au fructu bemiden: caule 
t, LIX, 319. — Less, Syn., 213. — DC, fruticoso v. arborescente : foliis pre su- 
Prodr NV, 511. — ENDL., Gen., n. 2474, — parie ribus alternis, integris v. lobatis; inflo- 
B. H. ; Gen., 1, 350, n. 33 3, rescentia composite cymosa. (Americs utraque.) 
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