Stem shrubby, branching; branches round, slightly an- 

 gular, ascendent, somewhat corymbose, herbaceous at the 

 upper part, leafy. Leaves numerous, scattered round, near, 

 uprightly spreading, glaucous, fleshy, linear, pinnatifid, flat 

 above with a faintly raised middle nerve, 3 or 4 inches 

 long, segments opposite or sometimes alternate, very dis- 

 tant, quite entire with a sharp point, tlic two lowermost 

 about equal to and exactly like the main or middle part, the 

 2 uppermost three times shorter than the other or more; 

 leaves next the flowers ternate or sometimes quite simple. 

 Flowers several (4-0) in the axils of tlie top leaves, disposed 

 in a wideset corymb ; peduncles solitary, one-flowered, 

 slender, fluted, longer than the leaves, upright. Flower 

 about an inch and an half across, scentless, with a white 

 ray: cab^oc shallow, hemispherical, smooth, closely imbri- 

 caiit, leajlets increasing gradually in size in the inner ranks, 

 scariose at the edge, tlie inmost of all rounded with a 

 brown scariose blade, outermost very small, subulate, con- 

 vex, glaucous: rai/ twice broader than the disk or more; 

 Jlorets linearly oblong, narrow, two-furrowed, two-nerved, 

 convex along the middle, obtuse, three-toothed, bent back 

 at the edges, tiihe short, green, glandularly pubescent; 

 stigmas 2 protruded, yellow, short, linear, revolute, not 

 pubescent at the top, channelled on the inside; ///a7v deep 

 yellow, florets short, about even with the tubes of the ray, 

 glitteringly frosted, tube curved thickish,yoH.rcampanulate, 

 segments of the limb angularly ovate spreading, recurved, 

 twice shorter than the faux; stigmas 2, deep yellow, revo- 

 lutely divergent, short, linear, channelled on the inside, 

 widened and pubescent at the tips. Germens of the ray 

 elliptic, quite smooth, convex on the outside, concave on the 

 inside, three-ribbed, nb membranously winged and toothed, 

 2 at the sides, one along the middle fronting inwards : pap- 

 pus a short membranous unequally toothed slanting border: 

 germens of the disk tapering downwards 4 cornered with 

 membranous angles, but shallower than in the germens of 

 the ray; pappus very like that in the ray. Receptacle green^ 

 naked, raised, conical. 



A greenhouse plant of easy culture and propagation. 



