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STEVIA Eupatoria. 
 Hemp-Agrimony-like Stevia. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA :QUALIS. 
STEVIA.  Recept. nudum. Pappus _aristato-paleaceus. Cal. 
eylindraceus ex simplici foliorum serie. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1774. 
S. Eupatoria, foliis lanceolatis in petiolum attenuatis trinerviis apice ob- 
soleté subserratis, corymbis fastigiatis, pappo paleaceo & aristato. 
Willd. in Mag. der gesell. nat. fr. zu Berlin, 1807. 138. ‘ 
Stevia Eupatoria, Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1775. Id. enum. 854, Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2. 4. 510. ' 
Stevia purpurea. Persoon syn. 2. 402. 
Mustelia Eupatoria. Sprenge/l in Lin. soc. trans. 6. 152. t. 13 2 
Planta herbacea, perennis, bipedalis, nunc recumbens. Caulis paniculato~ 
yamosus ; rami teretes, villost, laxé foliost ramulis Sloriferis corymboso-fasti- 
iantibus. Folia laxits sparsa, sessilia, oblonga, uncialia v. infra, obtusa 
cum brevi acumine, integra, 0. rariits superné obiter et obtuse subserrata, punc- 
tata, margine villosa, trinervia, deorsim attenuata. Flores pedicellati, sum- 
mis ramulis in corymbulos partiales approximati, 5-flosculost, parvuli, rubi« 
cundi; pedicelli fastigiantes, in supremis folits axillares, 1-flori. Cal. virens, 
villosus, duplo brevior flosculis ; foliola 5, lineari-lanceolata, carinata, con 
niventia in tubum oblongum. Vlosculi discoidet, tubulato-hypocrateriformes, 
externé villosi, limbo radiato-partito, lacinits lineari-oblongis, obtusis concavis, 
bis magisve brevioribus tubo. Anthera inclusa, mutica. Stigmata 2, capil- 
lacea, longits easerta, divaricata, ‘replicata. Germen longum, ac calys 
gracile, verticale, nervoso-angulatum: pappus biformis, ex paleis tribus brevibus 
obtusis muticis alternantibus cum aristis totidem setaceis plumosis subequantibus 
flosculos, . 
a a a TY 
A genus as yet wholly mexican, recently introduced 
into our gardens, and likely, from the species which it 
already counts, to prove of some extent. The name has 
been given by the late Professor Cavanilles, in commemo- 
ration of Dr. Peter Jacob Steve, or Esteve, an eminent phy- 
sician of Valentia; and professor of botany in the university 
of that city, about the middle of the sixteenth century. It 
differs from Evparorium and Acrratum by a calyx of one 
rank of leaflets, and by a pappus, one portion of which is 
long and awned, the other short, paleaceous, and obtuse. 
The present species is described as being usually recum- 
bent, but the drawing was made from a specimen which 
‘was supported, so that the appearance it might have had 
when free, has probably not been preserved in the figure. 
