cepting the inside of the corolla, the stamens, and style,) 
covered with soft, white and spreading, simple hairs, mixed 
with others which are much shorter and more dense. Leaves 
(half an inch long, about one line broad) scattered, spathu- 
lato-linear, glaucous, rather paler and more hairy below 
than above, spreading, flat, with a conspicuous middle-rib, 
but no lateral nerves. Capitulum terminal, many-flowered ; 
involucre similar to the stem leaves. Perianth white ; tube 
green where it covers the germen, rather longer than the 
involucre, slender, having long, spreading hairs externally, 
and only short, dense, hairs within ; limb somewhat irre- 
gular, segments imbricated, the upper and lower outermost, 
ovato-lanceolate, glabrous on their upper surface, the two 
lateral ones deflected. Stamens as long as the perianth ; 
Jilaments glabrous, at first erect, afterwards spreading along 
the upper and lower segments of the limb, white ; anthers 
brown, rhomboideo-oblong ; attached by their back near 
the base, bursting along their sides : pollen granules spher- 
ical, of the same colour with the anthers. Stigma blunt. 
Style glabrous, subterminal, exserted, as long as the sta- 
mens. Germen pale green, ovato-oblong, with a small 
tuft of erect hairs on its apex, elsewhere glabrous. Ovule 
solitary, pendulous, filling the germen. Graham. 
