_ ACTINOTUS Helianthi. 
Helanthus-flowered Actinotus. 
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PENTANDRIA DIGYNI4. 
Nat, ord. UMBELLIFERR. Jussieu gen. 218. Sprengell in Romer et 
Schultes syst. veg. 6. xx1x. Tribus I. Form Desciscentes. Div. Um- 
belle capitate. Sprengell loc. cit. xxx. 
ACTINOTUS. Flores plurimi, pedicellati, densé agegregati supra re- 
ceptaculum planum villosum involucro polyphyllo cinctum, compressione 
polygami, hermaphroditis scilicet et masculis singulis calyx superus 5-par- 
titus persistens. Cor. 0. Hermaphroditorum stylus, 
stigmatum seta late- 
yali: Semen unicum.  Labillard. nov. holl. 1. 67. as 
A. Helianthi, tomentosa, foliis decursivé pinnatis, involucro decem ad 
. octodecim-radiato mollilongissimo. Labillard. nov. hol. 1. 67. t. 92. 
Friocalia major.. Smith exot. bot. 2.37. tab. 78. Ejusd. introd. to bot. 373. 
Id. in Rees’s cyclop. in loco. Romer et Schultes syst. veg. 6. 339. 
Vaquerelle helianthe. Poiret in Lamarck encyc. 8. 338. 
Radix ramosa, lignea. Caulis unicus, subbi 
teres, lanatus, pardm nisi superne ramosus; pedunculi superni, longi, plus 
minus numerosi, cova mboso fustinianter Folia alterna, petiolata, trifida, 
lobata, pinnatifida, densé lanata, insignius a 
aq wus a parte prond albicantia. Stipule 0. 
Flores terminales, ampli, speciosi. Smith loc. cit. 
(exangl. vers.) Involucrum 
lentum, 8-18-radiatum, albidum pube molli curté lanatum, florum capitulo 
luriés longius, inequale; foliola lanceolata nervo medio principi, superne 
utrinque maculé cano-virente plis minus notata. Capitulum hemisphericum, 
congestum, hirsutum; pedunculi floribus fertilibus centri breviores, sterilibus 
eripheria longiores. Cal. herbaceus, intis glaber, extis pilis pluriés 
articulatis atque ad articulos aliis brevioribus verticillatis hirsutus; segmenta 
lineari-oblonga, obtusa, lenta, Stam. exserta: fil. glabra erecto-divergentes, 
tenuia, supra gyro simplici flexa; anth. carneo-enascentes, Sfulvido-emori- 
entes, breves, ovales, puncto acuto filamenti ad dorso affixe, biloculares lo- 
culis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus: pollen album, granulosum. Stylus calyci 
equalis, erectus, hirsutus, a basi ad medium compressé stipitiformis atque vi- 
rens, inde bicruri-divisus atque nigricans cruribus erecto-divergentibus lineari- 
bus utroque a latere interno stigma setaceo-elongatum albidum glabrum ipso 
ter feré longius apice curvatum educente. 
Germ. obovato-oblongum -hir- 
sutum, monospermum. YS CIM 
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A New Holland genus, | differing, 
Brown, from all the rest of its order, 
with a solitary ovulum. 
according to Mr. 
: in having a germen 
It ranks in the tribe “ Forme de- 
sciscentes (irregular coordinates),” the first of the divisions 
of the Umbelliferee, as remodelled by Professor Sprengell. 
pedalis, erectus foliosus, © 
