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si)athulate, cronulate, hairy beneath with, long, scattered, strigose down, superior lanceolate, 

 florjil cordate- deltoid, slightly strigose ; pappus-iristles setaceous, somewhat longer than the 

 achenium, with a minute, dilated base. — 1'-3' high ; glomernles 6'" diam. — Hab. Antigua !, 

 Nichols., a weed ; [Louisiana ; Cuba I to Brazil ! ; East Indies !]. 



14. E. mollis, Kth. Stem leafy above the base ; inferior leaves obovate-oblong or 

 elliptical, serrate-crenate, villous beneath with short soft down, superior obloug-laoceolate, 

 floral cordate-deltoid, pilose ; pappus-bristles setaceous, somewhat longer than the achenium, 

 leith a minute dilated base. — SI. t. 156./. 1. 2. — E. Martii, G>ah. — 5'-l' high; down of 

 the leaves half as long as in the preceding, and inflorescence usually more compound ; glo- 

 mernles 10"'-6"' diam., equalling the floral leaves ; pappus of E. scaber, while in E. caroli- 

 nianus, W. (Engelm.), the bristles are less abruptly dilated. — Hab. Jamaica !, Al., Wils., 

 March, a common weed ; Antigua !, Wullschl., Dominica !, Imr., S. Vincent !, Guild. ; 

 Trinidad !, Lockh., Cr., common ; [Cuba ! and Mexico ! to Peru ! and Brazil !]. 



Sect; S. Elephantosis, Less. — Pappus \-2-serial, of many bristles. — Glomerules sessile 



in interrupted spikes. 



15. E. angustifolius, Sw. Stem few-leaved, erect ; rosulate leaves lanceolate-oblong, 

 softly pubescent or glabrescent ; spike simple, or divided into erect branches below : glome- « 

 rules much exceeding the ovate-lanceolate floral leaves ; heads 4(-3)-flowered ; pappus- > 

 bristles subequal, 1-serial, much longer than the achenium, setaceous, gradually passing into 

 the broader base. — SI. t. 148./. 4. — Elephantosis, DC. — Stem simple, villous, 2'-3' high; 

 glomerules 4'" long. — Hab. Jamaica !, Acf., M'Nab, Wullschl., rare, in the mountains; 

 Trinidad !, iocM., O., in savannahs ; [Mexico! to Brazil!]. 



7. DISTREPTUS, Cass. 



Beads few-flowered, discoid, 1-3 in a glomerule : structure of Mcphanthopus, but pappus 

 l-serial, unequal, with several of the stouter bristles bent upwards and downwards below the 

 summit. — A branched, rigid, perennial herb; glomernles %-%-bracteate, in interrupted, 

 spreading, compound spikes : flowers white. 



16. D. spicatus, Cass. — SI. t. 150. /. B, 4. — Elephantopus, Juss. D. nudicaulis. Less. 

 D. crispus, Cass. ? (Spirochseta, Turcz) : said to be distinguished by spiraUy twisted ' 

 pappus-hristles. — 1'-3' high, glabrescent or scabrous ; inferior leaves spathulate or spathu- 

 late-oblong, variable in breadth, subentire or crenate, superior lanceolate; heads oblong- 

 linear, 4"'-6"' long, 4-3-flowered. — Hab. Jamaica !, all coll., a common, troublesome weed ; 

 Antigua !, Wullschl., Dominica !, Imr., S. Vincent !, Guild. ; Trinidad !, Sieb. Tr. 77; [Cuba!, 

 and Mexico ! to Venezuela I and Peru !]. 



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8. KOLANDEA, Bottb. 



Heads 1-flowered, aggregated into globose glomerules. Involucre 2-leaved, compressed. 

 Corolla 5(-3)-fid. Achenium oblong-turbinate, 4-eostate ; pappus minute, coroniform, den- 

 tate.— A virgate shrub; leaves alternate, ■whiie-tomentose beneath; glomerules solitary 

 along the axils, sessile between the leaves of rudimentary branches: flowers white. 



17. R. argentea, iLottb.—Sl. t.T f.i; Sw. Fl. t.ll: awflZj'if.— Echinops frnticosus, £.— 

 Leaves elliptical-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, pointed, penninei-yed ; glomerules 6 diam.— 

 Hab. Jamaica (SI.) ; Antigua I, Wullschl., Dominica I, Imr., S. Vincent ! Guild. ; Trmidad!, 

 Lockh., Or., in dry pastui-es, and along roadsides; [French islands!, Sieb. Mart. Mb; 

 Panama! to Brazil!]. 



Series 2 -EavaiOTiaxiex.— Style-branches bluntly clavate, rarely cylindrical-filiform, pu- 

 berulous above the stigmatic lines, or glabrous. Heads discoid, homogamous, cyanic— 

 Leaves usually opposite. 



In this series the cohesion of the anthers is generaUy slight, and in some cases (as in 

 A^nZemm!,, Brickelia diffusa, Hebeclinium, etc.) the anthers in dry spenmens appearea 

 qutc d'Sas was stated before of Kuhnia: but this is of no generic importance. 



