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C. H. Schultz, 



viderint paleas, attamen nisi omnia me fallunt, haec planta ad Achyro- 

 phoros pertinet. Paleae enim in hoc statu ab optimis observatoribus 

 saepissime negliguntur. 



8. Achyrophorus brasiliensis C. H. Schnitz. 



Achaeniis subaequalibus longe rostratis, involucri squamis li- 

 neari-Ianceolatis, radice fusiformi, (rostro achaenio longiore),flore luteo, 

 caule solitario subglaberrimo ramoso paniculato-dichotomo foliato 

 y 4 -3 pedes alto, foliis radicalibus subglabris o vato-lanceolatis 

 a cutis acuminatis subpinnatifidis, involucro glabro (vel hispido 

 ex DC). 



Synonymia. 



Porcellites brasiliensis Less. in Linnaea VI. 103. (1831.) = Seriola bra- 

 siliensis Less. syn. comp. 131. DC. Prodr. VII. 96 5 an etiam Ser. 

 brasiliensis Hook, et Arn. comp. I. 31. = Seriola Tweedii Hook, et 

 Arn. sec. cl. DC. 1. c. 



Descriptio sec. cl. Less. I.e. 



Radix recta aut oblique descendens, fusiformis, valde amara, 

 lactescens (ex Sellovio). Folia radicalia inferne cum caulinis, in 

 quae sensim sensimque transeunt, describenda. Gaulis simplex 

 (solitarius), erectus, sulcatus, glaberrimus, rarissime parura hirtus, 

 4 pollices- 3 pedes altus; superne dividitur in paniculam, magis- 

 minusve ramosam, subfastigiatam, dichotomam, cuius rami capitula 

 foliaque sua excedunt; basi ima dense, ceterum parum föliatus. 

 Folia membranacea, tenera, penninervia, glaberrima seuparum hirta, 

 subtus pallidiora, conferta, sessilia, obovato-lanceolata, acuto-acumi- 

 nata, basi cuneata integerrima pl. pedalia, superne pinnatifida (vel 

 dentata ex DC. 1. c), pinnis denticulatis, ovatis et acutis, liuearibus et 

 acuminatis, rarissime pollicem longis, 2 lineas latis, denticulatisque. 

 Superne folia caulina sensim sensimque evadunt minora, remota, 

 semiamplexicaulia, semilanceolata, saepissime auriculata, integerrima, 



