three inches long, which is winged above the middle, pale 
green above, with a reddish costa, and five to seven pairs of 
slender nerves, paler beneath, with stouter nerves; upper 
leaves small, sessile, acutely toothed. Heads few, in a ter- 
minal corymb, rather shortly peduncled, one and a half to 
two inches in diameter. Jnvolucre of about three series of 
orbicular, green, spreading, tomentose bracts. ay-flowers 
about eight, tube of corolla hardly any; limb broadly ovate- 
oblong, ending in two rounded lobes; style-arms two, 
filiform, brown. Disk-flowers enveloped in green bracteoles, 
stipitate by the imperfect, slender, cylindric, hairy ovary ; 
corolla-lobes four, dark red-brown, pubescent. Style 
columnar, entire, pubescent. Achenes broadly obovate, 
compressed, villous on the inner surface.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Invol. bract and ray-flower; 2, bracteole of outer series of disk- 
flowers; 3, inner disk-flower and bracteole; 4, anthers; 5, style of disk- 
flower :—All enlarged. 
