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AlUTiSlA latifolia.
Broad-leaved Mutism.
Linnean Class and Order. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SU PER FLUA.
Natural Order. COM POS ITÆ. Para. II. L a b ia t if lo ræ . Don in linn,
trans. 16. p. 184. Trib. 3. M u t is ieæ .
M U T I S IA . Involucrum polyphyllum, imbricatum. Rhachis nuda. Flos-
culi radii ligulati, foeininei; disci hermaphroditi, bilabiati. Filamenta
papillosa. Antheræ basi bisetosæ. Stylus glaber. Achenia subrostrata.
Fappus pluriserialis, plumosus.
Frútices (Amer, austr.) sæpè scandentes. Folia alterna, apice plerumque
cirrhosa. Capitula solitaria, magna, speciosa, radiata. Corolla purpurea
V. lutea.
M. la tifolia, caule alato, foliis cordato-oblongis deutato-spinosis subtùs lanatis,
iuvolucri squamis appendiculatis, pappi radiis æqualibus truucatis.
Mutisia latifolia. Don in l. c. 16. p . 270.
Stems shrubby, scandent, winged, extending often to a
considerable distance, the wings 3, broad, leafy, copiously
armed with spinous teeth. Leaves cordate-oblong, rounded
and emarginate, or often truncate, coriaceous, waved, and
copiously furnished at the margin with spinous teeth, occasionally
altogether entire, thickly clothed in the young state
on both sides with intricate woolly hairs, the upper surface
finally becoming glabrous, and of a light green, with the
veins less conspicuous than in ilickfolia, the midrib broader at
the base, and extending at the apex into a blunt, compressed,
spirally convolute tendril, of 3 inches in length. Capitula
solitary, nearly sessile. Lnvolucrumlarge, cylindrical, about
an inch long, woollj', imbricate, with oblong scales, the outer
ones terminated by an ovate-lanceolate, sharp-pointed, leafy,
spreading appendage ; the innermost ones in a single series,
with a broad, rounded, memhranous, coloured apex, but
destitute of an appendage. Rhachis naked. Florets those of
the ray about 14, female, ligulate, bluntly 3-toothed, many-
iierved, of a pale pink, furnished with 5 sterile stamens, and
an inner labellum, composed of 2, very short, linear, erect
segments ; those of the disk about 30, hermaphrodite, purple,
tubular, and bilabiate, the lips revolute, outer one ligulate,
bluntly 3-toothed, inner one deeply parted into 2, linear,
hlunt, 2-nerved segments. (SimneKS 5, inserted into the tube.
Filaments compressed, pubescent, jointed at the apex. Anthers
yellow, exserted, united into a tube,_crowned by a ligulate,
blunt, coriaceous appendage, and furnished at the base with 2,
compressed, channelled, branched, and often forked bristles.
Style glabrous, with 6 angles, thickened at the base, the
branches very short, blunt, and minutely papillose. Achenm • i
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