_ AND GENERA OF PLANTS. 453 
Islands, with diffusely trailing, oppositely branching, quadrangular stems, 
and opposite, pseudobipinnate leaves. Flowers yellow, usually terminal in 
threes, nearly sessile—(The name from oxta, to dissect, and pvaaror, a leaf; 
the leaves being remarkably dissected.) 
Schizophyllum * micranthum. 
Has. The island of Atooi, in shady woods, near Kolao. Af ial pl ith pr te or trailing 
branches, extending over two or three feet of surface. The whole sai sparing hy strigose, green. 
Leaves petiolate, deeply bipinnately dissected, the segments simple, cuneate-oblong, or two or 
three-lobed, the rachis set with small simple segments. Flowers small and very inconspicuous, 
terminal, on very short pedicels. Involucrum strigose, the leaves foliaceous, lanceolate, acute, 
very few, but imbricated, scarcely distinguishable from the palex of the receptacle. Rays two or 
three, pale yellow, oval, scarcely as long as the involucrum, with a smooth exserted style and 
stigma, and, as well as the florets of the disk, possessing a distinct tube. Anthers dark brown; teeth of 
the florets reflected. Achenium truncated and pubescent at the summit, the angles tubercular, 
the base also obtuse; tabescent achenia linear-obovate, also somewhat tubercular and quadrangular. 
Considerably allied to the preceding genus, but very distinct in habit, and almost wholly divested 
of pappus. 
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