OBELISCA’RIA DRUMMON'DII, 
DRUMMON vie Pet: <o e 
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Natural division 
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this Plant belongs, 
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No. 201. 
_ Operiscarta. Cass. Cariterum multiflorum heterogamum, 
fl. radii Pere 1- serialibus neutris, disci hermaph. tubulosis 5-dentatis. In- 
vouvcr. |- seriale pa tulis. ReceErt. elongatum spici- 
icati tis acl Sryir 
forme 
CALYCIFLORE ~ 
oF ; 
DECANDOLLE. 
barbellat ducti Acnsnra radii trigona 
is ~ _s 7 
ida aborti di sci bilateralit an ovale ealva suba- 
lata aut t epee unidentata. Msg Bor. i wish aoe abraess speciose g e glabrius- 
For 
pina petiolo aa ‘lobis 4 9 ~ 9) nune indivisis, nunc pisasipest- 
t Rami apice longe aphylli l-cepbali. Licut# flave aut crocee. Discu 
A cae floribus parvis fuscis innumeris. 
SPECIES. Opexiscarra tah gimctalanen (Grana mu) ig pubescens ; foliis 
ly yrato pinnatifi dis undatis, pen ndulis, 
foieicign. OF THE a aes Cane many- 
flowered, heterogamous, flowers of the ray in one row ligulate neu- 
ter, of the disk hermaphrodite tubular five-toothed. InvoLucre one- 
rowed, of few linear spreading leaflets. _RecEPTACLE elongated 
spike-like, the chaffs folded hirsute at the apex and half including 
the achenia. Brancues of the style short, extended into a lanceolate 
appendage sparingly bearded. Acuenta of the ray three-angled, his- 
pid, abortive ; those of the disk compressed on the sides, oval without 
pappus, somewhat winged on the anterior edge, or with one tooth on 
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DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, OBELISCARIA DRUMMONDIJ. STEMS 
many, sub-simple, rising from the crown of the root, very long, wiry 
flaccid, angled and furrowed, green, rough with short harsh adpressed 
hairs. Leaves deeply lyrato-pinnatifid, 3-7-lobed, scabrous from 
short harsh subadpressed hairs which point forwards; lobes linear- 
Pepunctes (above 13 foot) long, terminal, angled, and scabrous like 
the stem, single-flowered. INvoLucRreE of five unequal subulato-linear 
