orange-red, villous hairs, as are the petiole and rhachis of 
the leaves, the outer surface of the bracts and the receptacle. 
Leaves about a foot long, stellately spreading, linear, 
pinnatifid or pinnatisect, dark green above, pale beneath ; 
lobes or pinne an inch long or less, triangular-ovate to 
ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, three- to five-nerved beneath, with 
the nerves loosely villous, sinus between the lobes obtuse or 
acute. Inflorescence a sessile bracteate head of flowers two — 
to three inches in diameter, golden-yellow, outer bracts 
passing into leaves, inner very short, ovate, obtuse. 
Flowers densely crowded; perianth with a short, slender, 
silky tube, pat | four long, very narrow, obtuse, shaggy 
lobes, each bearing a linear, cuspidate, sessile anther on 
the inner face towards the tip. Style longer than the 
perianth-lobes, slightly thickened towards the tip, which 
is obliquely truncate.—J. D, H. 
“Bigs. 1,2, and 3, inner bracts of nat. size; 4, flower; 5, hairs of receptacle 4 
— eel with three innermost bracts ; 6, innermost hie 7, tip of peat 
lobe and anther ; 8, section of ovary with ovules :—All but 1-3 en/arged. 
