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PASSERINA L. — Eiidl. geu. n. 2095. 

 Passerinae sp, Linn, et auct, 



Florcs hcrmaplirodlti v. (in sp. Europaeis nonuiiDquani ) 

 abortii dioici. Calj/.v infnndibnliformis, demum supra ova- 

 rium circurascisso-decidiins, rarins totns pcrsisteiis \. deci- 

 dmis, liinbo 4 — 5-fido, fauce tubor|iic ucc squamis nee glan- 

 dnlis uec setis (filamentis stcrilibns) inuuitis. Stamina 8 

 V. 10; autherae plerumque sessiles v. siibsessiles , biseriales, 

 serlei superioris caljcis lacinils autepositae, plus minus ex- 

 sertae, inferioris iis alteruae infra sijius positae, plerumqno 

 iuclusae. Stijhis lateralis, inchisus, filiformis, stigraate ca- 

 pitato hispiduio. Nujc v, drupa sicca calycis basi persistente 

 tecta. 



Suffrutices v. frutices, raro herbae, u\ ^frica mistrali, 

 regionihus Mediterraneis et Asia occidcntali et horeali 

 crescentes, foliis oppositis v. sparsis, Jlorlbus spicatis aut in 

 capitula terminalia, nonnuuquam bracteis dilatatis majusculis 

 iuvolucrata, approximatis. 



Sectio I, Pentamcrac, 

 Flores terminales in capituluin sphäeroideum invo- 

 lucratum collccti, Calj/a: intus glaber , limbo b-fidoy 

 tuho gracili cijlindrico extus plus minus pubescente 

 V, sericeo, S/atn, 10. — Frutices, foliis sparsis, rare 

 snboppositis, sessillbns, lineari- v. oblonge - lanceolatis. 



1. P, polijcepJiala E, Meijer mss., raraosissima, ramis ra- 

 raulisque gracilibus, terctibus^ glabris; foliis lineari- lan- 

 ceolatis glabris (parvis); capitulis ovato-oblongis, 4 — 

 6-floris; iuvolucri foliolis meinbranaccis, extus villosiua- 

 culis, conuivontibus, adprcsse 3-seriatiin imbricatis, exte- 

 rioribus dcciduis, intcrioribus duplo majoribus, reccpla- 

 culo villis sericcis albis involucruni acquautibus dense 



