Deser.—A stout, glabrous undershrub, one to two feet 
high, with a simple leafy stem, woody at the base, and 
few-fld., corymbose inflorescence. Leaves crowded, three 
to four inches long, oblanceolate, or obovate-oblong, 
obtuse, narrowed into an entire sessile base, crenate- 
serrate above it, rather thickly coriaceous, dark green 
above, pale beneath. Head variable in size, up to three 
and a half inches in diameter, on long, stout one-flowered 
peduncles, that bear a few very short leaves. Involucre 
hemispheric; bracts short, broadly ovate, obtuse, her- 
baceous, green, with broad, red-brown, scarious margins. _ 
Ray-flowers very many, ligules linear, tips minutely five- 
toothed. Disk-jflowers greenish-yellow, tube terete, lobes 
minute, erect. Anther with short tips. Style-arms of 
disk-flowers with truncate, papillose tips. Achenes (imma- 
rae terete, crowned with a minute paleaceous pappus.— 
iv. H. 
Fig. 1, Ray-flower; 2, disk-flower ; 3, stamens; 4, style-arms of disk-flower : 
All enlarged; 5, reduced view of whole plant. 
