165 



suboctoni, plerumque digitales, obsolete angulati, saepius simplices 

 et tunc supra medium bibracteati, nonnumquam ad bracteas di- 

 chotome, i. e. in duos ramulos opposilos, bibracteatos, produclos, flo— 

 rigeros, divisi et inler eos spica sessili terminalij exsiccalione fla- 

 vescentes, basi parcius, superne densius lanali. Bracteje vix se- 

 miunciales, ex basi vaginante subulatae, obtusiusculae, låna den- 

 sissima contigua?. Capitula nunc hemisphaerica et depressa v. glo- 

 bosa, i unciam lata, nunc basi angustata et rariflora, elongato- 

 obovata; rhachis dense lanigera, bracteis 2 berbacefs saepe capituli 

 magnitudine sufTuIta. Flos albo-scariosus nitidus, omnibus parti- 

 bus glaber. Braeleolas ovatae, oblusce, scariosue, periantbio paullo 

 breviores, carina acutiuscula. Perianlhij loliola enervia, exteriora 

 oblongo-rolundafa, obtusa, basi flaveseentia, inleriora basi com- 

 pressa, angustiora. Tubus sfamineus cyathiformis 5-denIatus, den- 

 tibus 2 laleralibus antberiferis; staminodia 3, filamentis tequilonija, 

 sublriangularia, acufa, margine integra. Antberae 2 lineares Pi- 

 slillum slamina oequans; stylus nullus; stigmata linearia erecta. 

 Utriculus ovato-elliplicus, glaber, pellucidus; semen marginibus in- 

 ciassatum, medio rugulosum, orbiculare, fulvo-castaneum. 



Altern. subscaposa Book. (ex insula Charles!) difteri: foliis 

 basi tantum pilis albis tomenlosis, \ — \ unciam latis, ramis su- 

 perne di-tricbotome divisis, bracteolis periantbio duplo brevioribus, 

 et perianthio basi villoso-barbato; Moquin-Tandon [DC. prodrom. 

 XIII. Il p. 353) his addit: »folia spathulato-linearia, inferne at- 

 tenuata, flores basi villoso-barbati et sepala medio maculis 2 vi- 

 ridibus nofata». 



Alteux. kadicata Hook. (etiam ex insula Chatham) eadem ac 

 nostra planta forsitan est, quamquam descriptio 1. c. data non 

 omnino in eam quadrat. Folia enim dicuntur teretia, arachnoideo- 

 tomentosa, caule longiora; bracteas 3 — 4, capitula ^ lin. lata 

 (sine ullo dubio errore typographico!), bracteolae floribus paullo 

 longiores postice concavas, filamenta sterilia nulla, ovarium orbi- 

 culare compressum, stigmata brevia. Nonne specimina macra, 

 incompleta vel juniora descripsit Hooker? — In re incerfa tamen 

 satins duximus plantam a nobis ledarn completius describere. 



59. TELANTHERA. 



R. Bi: Congo p. 58. Endl. gen. n. 1957. 



122. T. filifolia Moqu. Tand. {DC. prodr. XIII. 

 II. p. 368.) 



BlTCHOLZIA F1LIFOLIA Hooli. fil. 1. C p. 192. 



