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CACALIA. ovalis. 
Oval-leaved Cacalia.’ 
SYNGENESIA -POLYGAMIA QUAL TS. 
~ CACALTIA. (Receptaculum nudum. Semen papposum. "Flores 
flosculosi.) Cal. simplex oblongus, basi caliculatus. Pappus pilosus- 
Jussieu gen. 178., Herbe y. frutices succulent. : ; 
be s- , 
|, Div. Herbaceas rofl 
C. ovalis, foliis crassiusculis, villosis, infernis ovalibus repando-dentatis 
petiolatis : supernis sublyrato-am plexicaulibus. 
Herba perennis villosa.: Folia succulenta, utringue breve willosa densiis et 
tomentose a prono ;. inferiora caulina 3-4-uncialia, ovali-elliptica, remote ef» 
breve dentata, apiculo calloso fusco im dentibus, media costa subtits waricosd 
nervos aliquot distantes utringue emittente, petiolo crasso sepe purpurascente s 
summa remota, parva, sessilia, bast incisa, dentibus crebrioribus. Caulis ses- 
gqui-tripedalis, erectiusculus, subvillosus, infra sanguineo-rubens, terminatus 
panicula pluriflord, distante, fastigiata, ramis v. pedunculis 1-floris, striato- 
teretibus, appressé uni-bibracteolatis. . Flores odlori, flavi, erecti, discoider v. 
JSlosculost Tehud multiim infra unciam transversi. Cal. quast monophyllus, 
campanulato-oblongus, sub-12-phyllus, #0. circiter brevior flosculis, subvil- 
losus, basi imbricatus foliolis aliquot brevissimis. Flosculi numerosi, omnes 
hermaphroditi, clavato-tubulosi, glabri, versus” periphariam curvati; tubus 
teres, dilatatus in limbum cum fauce simul eo triplo breviorem ; \aciniee lanceo- 
late, erecte, Anth. 5-dentata, flava, aquans imbum. Stigmata flava, _fili- 
_Sormi-subulata, longius exserta, bifurco-divaricata, swperné pruinosa, Germ. 
pluriés brevius flosculo, oblongum, teres: pappus albus, sericeus, minutissimé 
denticulatus, vie equans tubum flosculi, Recept. planum, areolatum, areolis 
papillam minutam includentibus. 
‘We have not traced our plant in any recorded species, 
A specimen of it has been deposited in the Banksian Herba- 
rium, which had flowered in the Kew Gardens, and is 
stated to have come from China. It approaches in general 
habit very near to Senecio divaricatus, a rayless species of 
Chinese Groundsel; but there the foliage is of smaller size, 
lanceolate, and closely serrate, and the florets of the peri- 
phery of the flower, altho’ floscular or tubular, are yet sta-_ 
meniess. A character which separates Senecio from Ca- 
catra according to the Linnean arrangement in order, as 
well as genus. 7" 
A perennial herbaceous plant, from a foot to a foot and 
half high. Zeaves succulent and thick, with a short piled 
pubescence on both surfaces, closer on the under; dower 
