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pedunculis aphylHs, 2-rarius monocephalis, nonnunquam 

 reliquis abortis spicam veram, simplicem fingens. Ca- 

 pilula plurlmiflora, aeque magna ac in V. macrocephala, 

 laleralia pedicellata. Involucrum profunde campanulalum, 

 bas.i obtüsum, niulliseriak, arcle imbricalum, follolis sic- 

 cis, rigidis, planis, exlus minute hispidiusculis , margine 

 lenuiori.! breviter rigideque ciliolatis, virescentibus, apice 

 saturatieribus , mulicis, ex semilanceolalis , parvis in li- 

 nearia, rectilineO-acuminata, 7'" longa, fructu parum bre- 

 viora. Rhachis ignota. Ovaria linearia, elongala , villo- 

 sissima, 3"' longa. Pappus pluriserialis, apice sordidescens, 

 Serie extima perbrevi, muUipaleacea, ab interioribus aequa- 

 libus, setac^eis longiludine latitudincque distincta. — Sei- 

 low in Brasilia^ (v. sp. s. 2.) 



J^, Involucri plus qriam i-flori foliola intima sal 

 tem longe pleraque oMusa; cymae scorpiöides, pedun- 

 cidis ad hasin capituloriim folia perfecta gereniibus, 

 inferioribus abortis saepe spicas vereis ßngind, (n. 

 86 — 99.) 



86. 7^, grandiflora n. sp. Nitida foliis brevissime 

 petiolalis, sublinearibus; foliolis exterioribus acuminalis^ 



Herba glaberrima faeie f^. SeUowii. Caulis gracilis, 

 erectus, sulcatus, circiter sesquipedalis, sinr»plex aut basi 

 ramosus, basi apiceque aphyllus. Folia papyracea, bre- 

 vissime petiolata, sparsa, penninervia, nervis venisque ulrln- 

 que prominulis, linearia s. lineari-lanceolata, in ulroque 

 fine acuminata, integerrima, erecto-palentia, ä — 6'" longa, 

 3'^' circiter lata. Capitula plurimiflora , magna aut termi- 

 nalia et solltaria s. gemina basique folio parvo suffulta, 

 aut in corymbum oligocephaluhi, terminatum disposita pe- 

 dunculisque inferioribus folio perfecto basi stipalis. In- 

 volucrum ihemisphaericum, floribus brevius, arcte imbri- 

 catum, muUiseriale, foliolis planis, siccis, subcoriaceis, 



