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STEVIA CALLOSA.
ARKANSA STEVIA.
Syngenesia Mqualis, Linn. Corymbiferse, Juss.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Receptacle naked. Pappus awned-paleaceous. Calix cylindrical, formed of a simple
i series of leaves.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Annual; leaves linear, crowded, somewhat thick, callous at their apices, the upper
ones alternate; flowers divaricate, sub-corymbose; pappus about 8-leaved,
erose, and very short. Nutt.
“ Plant annual. Somewhat scabrous; stem divaricately branched,
brittle. Leaves mostly alternate, sessile, and somewhat succulent, constantly
terminating in a yellowish sphacelous or callous point. Peduncles
and flowering branehlets glandularly pubescent; the flowers reddish
and dispersed, tending, however, to a corymb; the calix cylindric,
consisting of about eight linear leaflets disposed in a single series. Florets
from ten to twelve ? quite similar to those of Marshallia and Hy-
rrienopappus, bearing a slender tube and a funnel-formed five-cleft bor-
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