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upper part, where it forms a thickly leaved bushy head : 

 branches round closishly leaved shaggy flowerbearing at the 

 upper part. Leaves numerous, sessile, scattered, shaggy, 

 halved-elliptic, lanceolate, suberectly spreading, flatwise 

 perpendicular, obliquely pointed from the inner side, awned, 

 the awn terminating the outer and straighter edge of the 

 leaf, one-nerved (the nerve equidistant from both edges), 

 from f to I of an inch long and about three times narrower. 

 Stipules minute, orate, rusty red, caducous. Flowers yel- 

 low, in heads : heads globular, sevei*al in a raceme or some- 

 times solitary, smaller than a middle-sized pesi; racemes 

 axillary at the upper part of the branches, numerous, longer 

 than the leaves, stiff, outspread, with several loosely set 

 flowerheads ; pedicles scattered towards the top of the com- 

 mon peduncle or axis, stout, round, furred, whitish green, 

 about the length of the diameter of the flowerheads. Cal^x 

 minute, tomentose, white, 6-cleft. Petals 5, straw-coloured, 

 considerably longer than the calyx, unguiculate with a lan- 

 ceolately ellipti(^ lamina, slightly hairy on the outside. 

 Stamens deep yellow, twice the length of the petals: anthers 

 twin-globular. St^le deep yellow, twice thicker than the 

 filaments, inserted on one side the summit of the germeu. 

 Germen quite smooth, subtrapezoid, oblong, compressed, 

 tapered towards one edge, nearly transparent^ blunt at both 

 ends. 



