Leaves scattered, rigid, thickish, dark green, smooth, cu- 

 neately linear, retuse, pointless, about half an inch long: 

 petioles short, round, wrinkled; stipules 2, scariosely mem- 

 branous, reddish brown, subulate, shorter than the petiole 

 to the inside of which they are flatly pressed. Flowers in 

 heads: heads few-(5~) flowered, nearly sessile, slightly over- 

 topping the leaflets that envelop them: scales of the Jlower- 

 buds persistent, several, small, rigid, arid, brown-bay, 

 oblately ovate, concave, somewhat silky on the outside, 

 shorter than the pedicles, imbricately compassing. Pedicles 

 thick, silky, upright, shorter than the calyx. Calyx twice 

 shorter than the corolla, tubular, membranous, pale, silky, 

 evenly 5-toothed, the teeth acuminate and 3 times shorter 

 than the tube. Bractes inserted at the middle of the tube 

 of the calyx, lanceolately linear, brown-bay, rather higher 

 than the calyx, with a silky fringe. Corolla yellow, smooth, 

 not much exceeding the fourth of an inch in length. 



