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232 Amongt a variety of other beautiful plants, I found a very remarkable one of the compoite tribe; which had never before been dicovered. It contitutes a new genus, which I named richea, after Citizen Riche, one of the naturalits to our expedition. This philoopher fell a victim to his love for cience, having made, when already in a very advanced tage of conumption, a long and fatiguing journey, in which he had more conulted his cientific zeal than the tate of his health.

This new genus naturally ranks in the third ection of the cynarocephales. (Jufs. gen. plant.)

The common calix is compoed of everal obtue foliolæ, carious at their extremities, of equal length, and dipoed in a ingle row; it incloes everal ditinct calices, each of which is upported by a very hort peduncle. Each of the mall calices is compoed of five or ix foliolæ, and contains five or ix floriolæ, all hermaphrodite, and provided with heaths of nearly the ame length with themelves.

The floriolæ are inflated at their uperior extremity, and divided into five equal diviions.

Five ditinct filaments, attached to the inide of the corolla, upport the ame number of antheræ, united in the form of a cylinder.

The tyle is filiform, and of an equal height with the tamina. The tigma is bipartite. The