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numbers without any regular order, and are linear, very 
narrow, tipped with a little fliarp point, entire, fmooth, 
without any projecting vein or nerve, mod: frequently 
ciliated with fine ftiff hairs. Footjlalks very fliort, pale 
and fmooth, ereCt at night, by which the leaves become 
clofely predTed to the branch, and imbricated one over 
the other, though in the day time, and efj^ecially in 
bright fundline, they fpread horizontally. The very 
remarkable Jlipula dand folitary jud: above the infertion 
of each footdalk, ereCt, and clofe-predfed to the branch, 
whofe bark they by that means completely conceal ; 
they are brown, of a chaffy texture, lanceolate, cloven 
and fometimes laciniated, furnidied with two parallel 
nerves. The flowers are about twenty or more, in a 
round head, among fpreading leaves, and the branch 
they at fird; terminate is at length fometimes protmded 
beyond them, by which they become verticillate ; each 
flands on adiort, round, fmooth fiowerdalk, with bra£ie<^ 
like the leaves, but fmaller, and likewife accompanied 
with dipufje. Calyx llightly campanulate, red, divided 
half way down into five acute, fpreading, ciliated teeth, 
of which the two uppermod are the diorted: and broadeff ; 
between them and the next pair ftand the two ap- 
pendages which make a material part of the generic 
character, and which agree exaClly in appearance with 
the proper teeth, except in being fomewhat narrower, 
and inferted, one on each fide, about half way down the 
entire part of the calyx, to which their lower end is 
clofely applied, fo that they make the calyx appear to 
