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WEDELIA radiosa. 
_ Close-rayed Wedelia. _ 
»¥ _ SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA. SUPERVLUA, 
Nat. ord. Comrosirm. Adanson fam. 2.103. ) RED 
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W. radiosa, suffruticosa? aspera; foliis ovato-lanceolatis; calyce herbaceo 
urceolato squarroso, foliolis oblongis subspathulato-ovatis, imis. divari- 
catis: corolla radio imbricato-contiguo, ligulis gbovato-oblongis. — 
_ Suffruticosa? aspera, erecta, 3-4-pedalis, opposito-ramosa, ramis fus- 
cescentibus, frequentibus, teretibus, hispidis, foliosis, patentibus, sepe tri- 
chotomo-terminatis, * Fol. hispida, subcinereo-virentia, opaca, opposita, 
remota, lanceolato-ovata, subserrata, 5-uncialia v. longiora latitudine sub- 
biunciali, nervosa nervis 2 lateralibus principibus adscendentibus, bast breve 
cuneata: petiolus pluriés brevior, hirsute ciliatus. “Pedunculi terminales, 
solitarii, erecti, uniflori, foliis longiores. Flores lutei, erecti, diametro 
sesquiunciali v. majore. Cal. foliaceus, hispidus, rigens, corolla disco bre- 
vior, urceolato-squarrosus, ordine plurali polyphyllus, -gradatim inferne 
versus patentior ; foliola oblonga, extima decussato-patentissima lamind ovata 
utrinque hispidé, angue brevissimo v. nullo, media inferné erecta superné 
recurva, intima. submembranosa erecta solo apice patula, RApius femi- 
neus, utringue sulphureus, plurimus (duodenus?) imbricato-contiguus, disco 
_ satis depressior: “flosculi caduci, tubo recurvo, compresso, firmo, glabro, 
plurimiim breviore disco, lamind obovaté, oblonga, convexuld,  biplicata, 
emarginatd, prope tubum pilosiusculd ; stylus capillaris, tubo bis longior, stig- 
matibus canaliculato-capillaribus, glabris, replicatis, disco equalibus; germ. 
Lineari-compressum, obsolete trigonum, villosim, pappus quater brevior v. 
ultra, membranaceus, 1-phyllus, compresso-cupulatus, oblongus, villosus, Jim- 
briato-laciniatus lacinulis inequalibus plumosis: Discus hermaphr., pluri- 
mus, angustus, jiaves 3 flosculi clavato-cylindracei, graciles,' tubo tereti 
§abro. gneep plurimum longiore germine, fauce paulo ampliatéd 5-gond, 
limbi lacintis flavis patulis brevibus acuminatis cum margine incrassato villoso 
intensius flavicante: fil. elastica; anthera nigricans, anguloso-striata, val- 
vulis 5 luteis ovato-acuminatis apiculata; pollen vitellinum; stig’. flava, 
-exserta, spiraliter revolvenda, lineari-canaliculata, dorso et margine cana- 
liculi villosa; germ. radii nisi obesius, sub4gono-compressum angulis hir- 
sutioribus pappo sublongiore. Recept. planum, paleaceum: palew diaphane, 
convoluto-vaginantes cum carind clevata, appendice prefixe flav lanceolato- 
ovata erecta plana ecarinaté villosa. ; 
We have neither traced our plant in any published species, 
nor found any sample of it in either the Banksian or Lam- 
bertian Herbariums. The seed has been lately brought from 
the Brazils, and raised in the hothouse of the Nursery of 
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