604, 
SPHENOGYNE pilifera. 
Hair-tipped Sphenogyne. 
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SYNGENESIA POLYG@4MIA FRUSTRANEA. 
Nat. ord. Composirs. Adanson fam. 2. 108. 
CoryMBIFERE. Jussieu gen.177.. Div. VI. 
SPHENOGYNE. Recept. paleis distinctis. Pappus paleaceus, sim- 
plex. Stigmata apice dilatato subtruncato. Cal. imbricatus: squamis in- 
timis (omnibusye) apice dilatato scarioso. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2.5, 142. 
Herbe vel sepius frutices Australi-africana. 
S. pilifera, fruticosa, pilosiuscula, erecta, ramosa, foliis frequentibus car- 
nosis linearibus pinnatifidis bipinnatifidisve, summis bi-trifidis v. indivisis : 
pappo flosculis disci pluriés breviore: paleis receptaculi inclusis trun- 
catis flosculos semiamplectentibus. : 
Arctotis pilifera. Berg. cap. 356. Willd. sp. pl. 8. 2360. 
Arctotis crithmoides. Jacq. hort. schanb. 2.15. t. 155; (non aliorum, que’ 
est eadem cum SPHENOGYNE crithmifolid. Brown in Hort. Mew. ed. 2. 5. 
142, ArcroripE feniculaceda. Jacq. hort. schenb, 2. 15. t. 156, atque 
ArcroribE paleaced. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 2359.) 
Fruticulus alterne ramosus ; rami adscendenies, virentes, terctes, villosi, 
approximato-foliosi, lineati. Fol. spursa, numerosa, carnosula, pilosa, 
immerso-puncticulata, lineari-pinnatifida v. rarits bipinnatifida (superiora 
2-3-fida vel integra), semunctalia v. circa, lobis alternis v. oppositis, nunc — 
foliorum lyratorum ad instar inferne versis gradatim brevioribus, setuld brevi 
_ subtili apiculatis, rachide utrinque sulcatad. Pedunculi terminales, solitarii, 
1-flori, elongato-filiformes (sub3unciales ’), erecti, pilosiusculi, lineati, 
aphylli v. foliolis paucis subulatis appressis bracteati. Flores flavi, erecti, 
diametro vix unciali. Cal. cupulatus, bis brevior radio v. ulird, viridi et 
Sfusco subtessellato-varius, glaber,. sub4Aseriato-imbricatus; foliola erecta, 
introrsim longiora, margine scariosa, et pone marginem lined fuscd circum- 
notata; intima ovato-oblonga, lamina scariosd pallida erecta late ovata con- 
— vead cum maculd fused in disco appendiculata; media ovato-lanceolata ; 
extima subulato-atienuata. Radius plurimus, neuter, stellatus, subtus rubi- 
cundus, revoluto-emarcescens ; flosculorum lamina lineari-ligulata plana ob- 
tusa subintegra, subtis et summo tubo pube minuta glandulosa diaphand laaius 
aspersa; tubus rectus gracilis subvirescens : Discus numerosus flavus, her- 
maphr., convexiusculus, radio 3-4plo brevior ; flose. obverse cylindracet, gla- 
bri; tubus fauce continud paritm ampliatéd pentagond longior ; limbus luteus 
laciniis fauce pluriés brevioribus apice incrassato acuto: anth. flave valvulis 
5 minutis ad apicem, basi integerrime; fil. elastico-eatensilia ; pollen flavum 
granulosum: stig. flava, apice subcristato-dilatata pubentia, ceterum gla- 
bra: germ, land baseos obvallatum, tubo flosculi: brevius, lineari-oblongum, 
cylindricum ; palee 5 pappi tenues ovato-rotunde glabre germine duplo bre- 
viores convoluto-imbricate. Recept. planiusculum, paleaceum ; palez dia- 
phano-albicantes, oblonga, disco } v. cired breviores, flosculos semiamplec- 
tentes, eroso-truncate. 
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The subject of our article evidently belongs to the Arc- 
roris crithmoides of Jacquin, but not to Bergius’s species 
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