196 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
1. Saumea DC. 
Heads always discoid, whitish. Involucre 2-sub- 6-seriate, 
graduated; phyllaries rather few, ovate or ovate-lanceolate to 
oval, + indurated, chartaceous- or embranous-corlaceous, 
sometimes with distinctly herbaceous apex, striate, obtu 
or rounded to acute, appressed, sometimes with spreading apex 
eae hee conic to long-conic, many-flowered. Pales oblong, 
acutish, firm, persistent, ee about the achenes. Disk corollas 
erect, whitish, with short tube and broadly cylindric throat, 
5-toothed, 5-nerved. Ate minutely sagittate-cordate at base, 
with obtuse deltoid-ovate apical appendages. Style-branches 
obtusish, unappendaged, papillose-hirtellous toward apex. Achenes 
oblong, strongly compressed, blackish, with very narrow pale 
border or none, usually ciliate on eae and sometimes at apex 
(when the hairs simulate squamelle, but are merely doubly 
tubular hairs like those of achene margin), bearing two upwardly 
ciliate subequal awns.—Erect or scandent shrubs, with always 
opposite leaves oe sometimes those of inflorescence), entire 
. toothed, glabrous or rarely even pilose, and cym mose-panicled 
DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 140 (1813); Cass. Dict. Sci. Nat. xlvii. 87 
(1827); DC. Prodr. - 493 (1836); Urb. Sym. Antill. v. 255 (1907), 
q.v. for synonymy: all pro parte. Hopkirkia Spreng. Nov. 
Prov. 23 (1819) ; Tak a 443 (1826), in part. “ Fornicaria 
Raf. Sylva Tell. iii. 116 (1838).” 
Key To Species. 
Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong or sore usually + 
ate, acute or rarely o 
Phyllaries indurated at least below, sieacbaceieé coria- 
ceous, sometimes slightly herbaceous at the 
usually acute apex. 
Heads very numerous, cymose-panicled on Bde 
spreading axillary (and terminal) branch 
: 2 asian 
Heads few or several, on erect peduncles or several- 
headed flowering-branc 
Heads numerous, on 3- 1. headed peduncles... 2. Palmert. 
Heads few (ca. 5-11), on 1-3-headed peduncles 
3. oligocephala. 
geo submembranous, the apex usually rounded, 
Stem “ied leaves are rufous-pilose 
Stem and leaves glabrou 
Leaves ovate, 3-3-8 oie long, 2-25 em. wide 
5. glaberrima. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 3-3-7 em. long, 8-13 mm 
wide 
Leaves cuneate-obovate, thick, entire, rounded at apex 
7. petrobioides. 
eeieens 4. sessilifolia. 
6. ‘caleoides. 
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