CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS A FLORA OF SOUTH AMERICA. 35 
ori glabro — pedicellatis patenti- 
bus obsito ; disco epigyno ma 1p- 
pus breviter sso: plumosus, denticulis 
tamen longioribus quam in Perezva.— 
omit ering pes them by the style, 
cionides, Hook. Exot, Fl. t. 101. (ad 
atam — i 
in both varieties the pappus of the outer 
row of florets is always shorter than in 
the inner ones, but the exact proportion 
they bear to — other is far from con- 
stant. Th 
ith a long acumination. 
e tomentum on the stem and pedun 
did is so copious as almost to conceal 
the short ular hairs found in all the 
d © 
o ^ foot and half, or nearly two feet 
ee Nc Leucheria (Euleucheria) acan- 
Linn. Soc. Trans. 16. 
plant, differing apparently from L. hie 
judging from Lessing’s s 
déscsiptun] by the ts of the 
cauline leaves being lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, with revolute mar- 
gins; they are also frequently again si- 
74. (3) - Leucheeria esee di- 
 varicata (Don); caule elato valido su- 
perne in paniculam maximam patentem 
- diviso, pube conspicuo difformi, foliis 
bus versus apices pedunculorum su 
nis, involucri foliolis arcte imbricatis 
Me UST v ue, E fot ci rt 
. . i Li LI Ly LI 
ovatis apice acutis vel eroso-denticulatis. 
n Li 14. 
kac of the rachis are there described 
s being furnished with a long acumina- 
tion, — we have not met with in any 
UE wre —— Se) con- 
os Gill— Don in Phil. Mag. (Apr. 
832.) p. 389; in Guill Arch. 2. p. 464. 
mT del Inga, Andes of Chili, Dr. 
Gillies —Readily recognized by the de- 
currentleaves and compact inflorescence ; 
= pe aps this last character is not 
. ^5) Leucheria (Cassiopea, Don,) 
runcina .); caule ‘hee obsolete 
iferis 
SS aer radicalium pe precem late 
cineifo ntatiscar 
entatis cau 
roe ngs r involucri campa- 
nulati foliolis interioribus s scariosis line- 
ari-lanceo —-— —— S, ovali 
tubo —— latiori. Don in 
e a 
p: ry a eee Less. OL 
ro ?—Andes of Men r, Gil- 
y the lower cauline ones slightly 
of the upper or bracteal ones 
analis covered with glandular hairs. 
These g 
t 
— it among 
the true species of Leuc. there 
eri no — within d outer row 
rS j Leucheria AE a) Gillie- 
ai tei an Arn.); caule lanato tomen- 
nes satis nigro-glan- 
ps Pc foliis superioribus 
plexicau uriculatis ol 
inciso: us 
bus acuminatis mucronato-pungentib 
involucri ce meena foliolis interiori- 
bus li 
Hua 
