An licrbaceous perennial? from two to three feet high: 

 stem upright, round, branching, roughishly furred; branches 

 alternate, low'^er ones sterile short and leafy, flowerbear- 

 ing ones growing nearly to a leveJ. Leaves both alternate 

 and opposite, sessile linear pointed quite entire turned 

 down at the edge (one-nerved?) with the nerve very promi- 

 nent at tlie under side, 14-15 lines in length, narrow. 

 Flowers at the ends of the branches, soUtary; peduncles up- 

 right, forming a kind of corymb. Calyx somewhat hemi- 

 spherical, squarrose (ragged), manyleaved; leaflets closely 

 imbricated linearly oblong pointed, roughly furred towards 

 the upper part, green at the top, reflex, outermost the 

 shortest. Receptacle nearly flat, chaffy, palew (chaffs) 

 oblong taper-pointed keeled smooth scariose, shorter than 

 the florets of the disk. Florets of' the disk deep yellow very 

 numerous tubular with perfect stamens and pistil, smooth 

 G-lobed, lobes ovate pointed without any nerve: anthers 

 Anally elevated above the orifice of the floret ; germen linear 

 compressed smooth slightly furred with a seedcrown of 2-3 

 subulate paleae; style smooth; stigmas 2, protruded revo- 

 lute. Seed linear compressed shghtly furred, with a seed- 

 crown of numerous subulate roughly fringed deciduous 

 minute paleae, among which are from 2 to 3 which are 

 much longer than the rest and awnshaped, being in fact but 

 little shorter than the seed itself: florets of the ray 16-20, 

 ligulate, without stamen or pistil, deep yellow, tube short, 

 blade or lamina elliptically oblong 3-toothed flat spreading 

 many-nerved smooth, 2^ Hnes long; germen linear thin 

 smooth abortive. 



We had no opportunity of inspecting the plant from 

 which the drawing was made; and have borrowed the de- 

 scription from Messrs. Cavanilles and Kunth. 



