Mrs. Glynne Williams, sent them in 1890 from Vipos, 
thirty kilometres north of the city of Tucuman. The 
Kew plant, after having stood for several years without 
protection, on a slope close to the pond opposite the Palm 
House, in June of last year sent up its flowering stem 
five feet high, and flowered profusely. 
Deser.—A tall, very stout herb, in a young state 
sparingly woolly; flowering stem five feet high, terete, 
striate. Leaves chiefly radical, twelve to eighteen inches 
long, by four to six broad, oblong-ovate, broadest at the 
unequally truncate or cordate base, bright green above, 
more blue-green or purplish beneath, margin undulate and 
crenate-toothed, midrib very stout ; nerves eight to tel 
pairs, spreading ; petiole about as long as the blade, stout, 
hollow; upper or cauline leaves much smaller, sessile 
lanceolate, toothed. Head, an inch in diameter, shortly 
pedicelled in crowded clusters at the ends of the naked 
branches of a pyramidal panicle one to two ft. high. 
Involuere cylindric; bracts linear-oblong, green; tips 
brown, bearded. Ray-flowers twelve to sixteen, limb 
broadly obovate-oblong, pale straw-colrd., tip cremate. 
Disk-jlowers many, golden-yellow. Achenes (ripe, not 
seen) glabrous; pappus silvery.—J. D. H. Me 
Fig. 1, Bract of involucre; 2, fl. of the ray; 3, pappus hairs; 4, fl. of disk; 
5, stamens; 6, style- i on ‘aad . d view 0 
peered te yle-arms of disk f.:—Al/ enlarged ; fig. 7, reduce : 
