368 SYNANTHBRE^. 



79. C. Badieri, Gr. Branchlets strigose-scabrous ; leaves ovate-lanceolate or ovate, 

 acuminate, cuneate at the base, remotely serrulate witb incurved teeth, glabrescent above, 

 adpressed-hispidulous beneath; heads pedicellate, corymbose ; involncral scales ovate, acute, 

 substrigose with scattered hairs ; 'i flowers l-serial, 5-7, J 10-12 : 3 corolla ahrwptly and 

 broadly campanulate above the cylindrical, short base, densely papillose at the lobes ; ache- 

 nium obovate, villous at the top ; sterile stalks villous. — C. terebinthaceum, p Badieri, I)C. PI. 

 Carib. (non Trixis terebinthacea, Sw.).-^k shrub ilmr.), but the branches look like a suflru- 

 ticose herb, as in the preceding ; leaves 5"-3", petiole 6"'-10"' long ; corymbs Z" diam. 

 terminal and axillary : heads 3'" diam. — Hab. Dominica I, Imr. ; [Guadeloupe I, in woods 

 along rivers]. 



80. O. terebinthaceum, i)C. («»(;&(*. i8). " Branchlets subhirsute j leaves ovate or ob- 

 long, acuminate, serrulate, hispidulous above, hirsute beneath ; heads subsessile ; involncral 

 scales oblong, acute, pubescent ; $ flowers l-serial (DC), S numerous : corolla clavatq 

 (e^io. Sw.) ; acheuium hirsute above the middle." — Su>, Fl. t. 26,/. inf. — ^Trixis, Sw. — ^The 

 style in the $ flovfer is said by Sw. to be bifid, and figured thus, which, if confirmed, wonld 

 be a difierence from all other species. — Hab. Jamaica (5!0.), in stony valleys of the Western 

 districts. 



** Female flowers Z-pluriserial. 



SI. C. Alexandri, Gr. (n. sp.). Branchlets and corymbs hirsute; leaves broadly 

 ovate, with a bluntish point, minutely denticulate-serrate, scabrous above, hispidulous and 

 hirsute on the midrib beneath ; heads subsessile-conglomerate, corymbose ; involncral scales 

 ovate, pointed, strigose, 3-striate ; $ flowers 2-serial, $ 5-2 : S corolla subcylindrical 

 from the base, slightly papillose at the lobes ; achenium obovate, glabrous, with a terminal 

 tuft of hairs ; sterile staUts shortly pilose at the top. — 8'-10' ; leaves 7"-5" long, 4"-3" 

 broad : petiole V'-A.^" long ; corymbs 3" diam., terminal : heads IV" diam. — Hab. Jamaica!, 

 Al., Wils., S. Anns at Moneague, Cunacuna Pass. 



82. C. erosum, DC. Branchlets strigose ; leaves ov^te, shortly acuminate, cuneate at 

 the long-petioled base, unequally inciso-serrate, scrabrous above, adpressed-hispidulous be- 

 neath; heads pedicellate, corymbose; involucral scales ovate-roundish, strigose with scat- 

 tered down ; ¥ flowers 2-serial, 3 10-12 : corolla abruptlg and broadly campanulate 

 above the cylindrical base ; achenium obovate, pubescent near the summit ; sterile stalks 

 shortly puberulous above. — Trixis, Sw. — Not poisonous, as is C. Badieri (Imr.). Leaves 

 5"-6''^loug, 5"-2" broad : petiole 14"-2" long ; heads 2*" diam.— Hab. S. Kitts, Dominica!, 

 Imr. ; Trinidad !, Loctch. 



83. C. fragiferum, Gr. (». «p.). Branchlets and corymbs densely hirsute ; leaves 

 ovate, pointed, broadly cuneate, unequally inciso-dentate or serrate, scabrous-hispidulous, 

 hirsute on the midrib beneath and on the petiole ; heads corymbose, superior subsessile ; in- 

 volucral scales ovate, pointed, strigose ; ^ flowers 4r-S-serial, 3 few ; 3 corolla clavate ; 

 achenium roundish, shortly pilose at the subtruncate summit ; sterile stalks glabrous. — C. ero- 

 sum, PI. Oarib. (non DC). Latreillea peruviana, H. Hook, (turn Ptepp^. — Leaves 3"-6" 

 long, li''-4" broad ; petiole 8"'-12"' long ; fruit-bearing heads 3'" diam., globose, distin- 

 guished from the other species by the number of spreading, prominent palese, which with 

 the involucral scales cover the whole of it. Latreillea peruviana, Poepp., having a subcylin- 

 drical receptacle and diif^reiit ? flowers, is no congener. — Hab. S. Vincent I, Guild. ; 

 [Guadeloupe I, in the mountains along rivers]. 



21. OGIERA, Cass. 



Head discoid, heterogamous, 6-8(-^12)-flowered : exterior flowers ? , interior 3 . Invo- 

 lucre foUaceous, l-serial, Seceptacle paleacons. Anthers distinct, 8-tailed, becoming 

 blackish. Style 2 -fid: branches with no hispidulous appendage. JcAeBiam obovate-piis- 

 matical, cro'wned with a oiliate tubercle. — A hispid or pubescent, diffuse, annual herb; 

 leaves opposite, tnplinerved, glandular beneath ; heads suisolitary in the axils, pedunclei, 

 cemuous, yellowish. 



In the PI. Caribsepe I reduced this plant to Tetranthus : but since I had the opportunity 

 of examining the original T. liioraUs, Sw. of Haiti, and I am now rather inclined to con- 

 sider the palese of Tetranthus as inner involucral scales and its receptacle as nalied (in con- 



