face, slightly lepidote on the back, margined with a brown- 
black line, and furnished with copious large ascending 
prickles of the same colour. Inner leaves reduced in size, 
and flushed with purple towards the base; innermost 
small and altogether purple. Capitulum dense, many- 
flowered, sessile in the centre of the rosette of leaves; 
bracts lanceolate, green. Ovary cylindrical; segments of 
the calyx-limb oblong-lanceolate, cuspidate. Corolla a 
little longer than the calyx-limb; tube cylindrical; seg- 
ments falcate, ovate cuspidate, bright lilac. Stamens 
arranged in a single row at the throat of the corolla-tube ; 
filaments very short; anthers oblong. Style elongated ; 
stigmas spirally twisted.—J. G. Baker. 
, Fig. 1, The whole plant, much reduced ; 2, a portion of a plant, life-size; 3,a 
single flower, complete, with its subtending bract; 4, portion of corolla, cut open, 
showing three stamens; 5, summit of style, with stigmas :—all enlarged. 
