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SANVITALIA procumbens. 
Trailing Sanvitalia. 
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SYNGENESIA POLYGAMI4A SUPERFLUA. 
Nat. ord. Composirm®. Adanson fam. 2. 103. 
CoRYMBIFERE. Jussieu gen. 177. Div. V. . 
SYNANTHERER. Cassini in dict. sc. nat. 10. 131. Tribus TX. 
PIerv1antTHEeR. Cassini loc. cit. 20. 369. 
SANVITALIA. Cal. hemisphericus, patens, foliolis planis ovalibus 
biseriatis. Cor. radiata: discus numerosus, flosculis hermaphroditis tubu- 
losis limbo 5-partito: radius flosculis subduodenis ligulatis lamina ovali sub- 
integra patente. Fila. brevissima, capillaria : anthe. oblonge. Germ. com- 
pressum, pubescens ; stylus staminibus longior; stiga. 2 replicata. Sema. 
nuda; disci subcuneata, complanata, marginibus ciliata; radii turbinata, 
dentibus 3 subulatis coronata. Recept. conicum, paleaceum pales lingula- 
tis concavis striatis. Lamarck encyc. 6. 509; (é gallico.) 
S. procumbens, foliis ovatis, oppositis, superioribus subalternis hirsutis; ra- 
mis oppositis scabris. Lamarck encyc. 6. 509. 
Sanyitalia procumbens. Lamarck journ. @hist. nat. 2. 178. t. 33. illustr. 
gen. t. 686. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 2190. enum. 2. 212. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 
5. 109. i 
Sanvitalia villosa. Cavan ic. 4. 31. ¢. 351. 
Lorentia atropurpurea. Orteg. dec, 4. 42. t. 5. 
Herba annua cespitoso-diffusa, caulibus undique procumbentibus oppo- 
sito-ramosis, virescentibus aut viridi-purpurascentibus, cylindricis scabris 
subvillosis 10-15-uncialibus: rami inequales inferiores longiores inferne oppo- 
sitifolii, supern? subalternifolii. Fol. ovalia, integra, utrinque virddia, 
parciis villosa pilis brevibus raris decumbentibus, subsesquiuncialia latitudine 
5-8-lineari, 3-nervia, bast im petiolum attenuata: inferiora distantiora. 
Flores terminales, solitarii, sessiles, basi foliolis bracteaceis cincti. Cal. 
subpubescens, luteo-virens, squamis biseriatis ovalibus planis subpatentibus. 
Cor. magnitudine mediocri; radius patentissimus flosculis vivide luteis (subtis 
nervis '7 viridibus) discus conicus v. ovatus flosculis nigricantibus numerosis 
parvis. Anth®. virides. Semina villosa ciliata subbiformia, disci cuneato- 
complanata obtusa apice nuda, radii turbinata, dentibus tribus acutis di- 
stantibus coronata. Lam. loc, cit. (@ gall. vers.). : 
a 
Native of Mexico, and originally sent from thence to 
the Botanic Garden at Madrid, from whence the seed was 
brought into this country in 1798, by the late Lady Bute. , 
The drawing was taken from a plant raised by Mr. 
Barker Webb, from seed procured from the botanic esta- 
blishment of Count Parolini at Bassano. We had never 
met with it in any of the nurseries about London. 
