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losa, reticulato-venosa, crenulata, firma, supra virldia ner- 

 visque subtus hispidiuscula, subtus tomento denso incana, 

 obovala — ovata, obtusiuscula , saepe mucronulata , basl 

 subcordata . 9 — 12'" longa ,6 — 8'" lala. Petioli clr- 

 citer lineam longl, hirsuti. Capitula solilaria in ramis su- 

 perne nudis. Involucrum campanulatum, imbricalum, fo- 

 iiolis incrmibus, ex subrotundo-ovatis, aciitis, mullipllner- 

 viis, foliaceis, rigldis, liirsutis, circiter 4'" longis et 3'" 

 latis, integerrimis in sicco -membranacea, niargine scariosa, 

 linearia, obtusa — acutiuscula, 3-nervia, glabra, 5'" lon- 

 ga, vix 1"' lata, apice eroso-crenata. Corollae purpureo- 

 violaceae? circiter 5"' longae, profunde quinqueüdae, in- 

 ferne pills brevissimis adspersae. Pappus valde caducus, 

 setis subpaleaceis, breviter plumosis, acuminalis, vix 2'" 

 longis, aequalibus. Stylus Vernoiüae. Acliaenia nitida, 

 sulcata, in specimine suppetenle inania. — Lechenault 

 in India orientali. (v. sp. 1. in hrb. Kth.) 



5. A. senegalensis* (Herderia truncata Cass. Ann. 

 sc. nal, XXXVII.) Foliis utrinque glabris — sericeo-vil- 

 losis; foliolis muticis, acutis. 



Herba saltem culla annua. Radix lignescens, fusca, 

 perpendicularis , glabra, pennam corvinam crassa, fibris 

 crebis, simpliciusculis. Caules plurimi, diffüsi, flexuosi e 

 radice pxodeunt 3 pollicares, unipedales, ramosi ramique 

 alterni teretes, striati, magis niinusve albo-pllosi s. vil- 

 losi, saepe purpurascentes, lilo emptorio vix crassiores, 

 ubique aequaliter foliali. Folia membranacea , alterna, 

 saepe satis conferta, penninervia, nervis nuUibi prominulis, 

 avenia, plana, brevissime petiolata, glabriuscula — seri- 

 ceo- incana, obovata rarius oblonge -obovata, obtusissima 

 s. acutiuscula, basi longissime cuneata, integcrrima s. apice 

 dente uno alterove obsoletissimo inslructa, 3 — 15'" longa, 

 2 — 5"' lata. Capitula solitaria, aeque magna ac in Co- 

 ttda coronopifolia^ 3'" longa, 23 — 27-flora. Involucrum 



