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numbers without any regular order, and are linear, very 
narrow, tipped with a little fharp point, entire, {mooth, 
without any projecting vein or nerve, moft frequently 
ciliated with fine {tiff hairs. Foot/a/ks very fhort, pale 
and {mooth, erecét at night, by which the leaves become 
clofely prefled to the branch, and imbricated one over 
the other, though in the day time, and efpecially in 
bright funfhine, they {pread horizontally. The very 
remarkable /pu/e ftand folitary juft above the infertion 
of each footitalk, erect, and clofe-prefled to the branch, 
whofe bark they by that means completely conceal ; 
they are brown, of a chaffy texture, lanceolate, cloven 
and fometimes laciniated, furnifhed with two parallel 
nerves. The fowers are about twenty or more, in a 
round head, among {fpreading leaves, and the branch. 
they at firit terminate is at length fometimes protruded 
beyond them, by which they become verticillate; each 
{tands on a fhort, round, {mooth flowerttalk, with érac/ea 
like the leaves, but fmaller, and likewife accompanied 
with ftipule. Ca/yx ilightly campanulate, red, divided 
half way down into five acute, {preading, ciliated teeth, 
of which the two uppermotit are the fhorteft and broadett; 
between them and the next pair ftand the two ap- 
pendages which make a material part of the generic 
charaéter, and which agree exactly in appearance with 
the proper teeth, except in being fomewhat narrower, 
and inferted, one on each fide, about half way down the 
entire part of the calyx, to which their lower end is 
clofely applied, fo that they make the calyx appear to 
