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lide fusca, versus apicem extus pubescentia, margine bre- 

 viter ciliata, interiora valde caduca, fructus aequantia. 

 Pappi argentei series exterior brevis ab interiori longitu- 

 dine atque latitudine dislincta. Corollae glabrae, purpu- 

 reae. Achaenia oblonga, obcompresso-trigona, dorso con- 

 vexo, glaberrima, stramineo- fusca. — Sellow misit spec. 

 co e Brasilia tropica. 



20. V. notata n. sp. Caulis fr, forsan scandens, ra- 

 mique divaricati, alterni, tomento quam maxime adpresso 

 superne junioresque angulali, cinerei. Folia penninervia, 

 alterna, petiolata, subcoriacea, rigida, supra glaberrima, lu- 

 cida, nervis prominulis, obscure viridia, subtus petiolique 

 3 — 6'" longi albida, densissime lepidoto-tomentosa, squa- 

 mulis ita densis, ut aegre distinctae conspiciantur, inleger- 

 rima, lanceolata, basi rarius inaequali breviter acuminata, 

 2 — 4" longa, \ — 2" lala. Inflorescentiae fasciculares, 

 ramis 1 — 3-cephalis, capilulis cylindraceis, 3-floris, pe- 

 tiolos foliorum, e quorum axillis prodeunt, aequantibus 

 aut parum superantibus. Involucri foliola, coriacea, sicca, 

 1-nervia, pallide fusca, apice acutiusculo macula^ tomen- 

 tosa, constantissima nolatis, ex ovatis in clliplico-oblonga. 

 Pappi argentei series exterior submediocris, inaequalis ab 

 interiori nee latitudine vix longitudine distineta. Corollae 

 glabrae^ purpureae. Achaenia immatura glaberrima. — E 

 Brasilia misit Sellow spec. 2. 



21. V. populifolia (Sprg. syst. III. pag. 434. N. 2. 

 Distephanus populifolius Cass. Dict. d. sc. nat. 13. p. 361. 

 Conyza populifolia Lam. Enc. II. pag. 87. Willd. sp. 

 pl. III. p. 1943.) Arbuscula ramis alro-fuscis, teretibus, 

 obsolete tomentosis, foliis delapsis nodulosis, junioribus 

 albo-tomentosis, sulcatis. Folia sub tri - quintuplinervia, 

 coriacea, petiolata, alterna, juniora utrinque niveo-lomen- 

 tosa, adulta nonnisi subtus nivea, acuminata, juniora ob- 

 tusa aut acuta, basi subcordata, integerrima, \\ — 5" longa, 



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