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Its real structure was first pointed out by Professor 

 Swartz, who consequently referred it to Galea, with the 

 character of which it exactly agrees. This alteration is 

 adopted in the first edition of Hortus Kewensis, where 

 the generic character of Galea is modified, to admit those 

 species that are without pappus ; and by Gsertner, who 

 hmits the genus to C. lobata and C. jamaicensis, as the 

 only species that correspond with the Linnean character. 

 But as G. jamaicensis, the original species of Galea, has 

 been shown to have a pappus of a very different kind, it 

 becomes necessary to give a new name to Galea lohata ; 

 and some additions being also wanting to its generic cha- 

 racter, I propose the following, and the name of 



Neurol^na. 

 Galea G<srt. 



Involucrum imbricatum, foliaceum. Beceptaculum palea- 

 ceum, planiusculum. Flosculi tubulosi, uniformes, herma- 

 phroditi. Anther ce inclusse, basi muticse (emarginatse). 

 Stigmata acuta, recurva. Pappus capillaris, denticulatus, 

 persistens. 



Frutex (Araericse sequinoctialis) erectus. Folia alterna, 

 indivisa, et lobata. Corymb us terminalis, compositus. In- 

 volucri subovati foliola obtusa, nervosa. Palese recepta- [121 

 culi involucro subsimiles. Corollulse^aw*.^ 



' There are two other genera in many respects agreeing with the character 

 here given of Neurolmna, which it is necessary to point out. The first is Car- 

 phephorus of M. Cassini (in Bulletin des Sciences, 1816, p. 198), sufiiciently 

 distinct in having the stigmata of Eupatorium or Liatris with the habit of the 

 latter, from some species of which it differs only in its receptacle having paleee. 

 The second, not yet described, may be named 



PiPTOCABPHA. 



Involucrum imbricatium, turbinatum, soariosum. Receptaculum : paleis di- 

 tinctis. Flosculi tubulosi, uniformes, limbo revoluto. AntheriB exsertse, basi 

 bisetK. Stigmata filiformia, acuta, hispidula. Pappus pilosus. 



Frutex (Brasiliensis) ramosissimus, decumbens? Tolia alterna, intec/errima, 

 sublus incana. Involucra axillaria et terminalia, fasciculata, glabrata, squamis 

 sessilibus obtusiusculis enerviis, textura uniformi. Paleue receptaculi squamis 



