_ upper surface of theleaves. Leaves opposite, long petioled, 
broadly ovate, pinnately ternatisect, one and a half to two 
and a half inches long, by two across the two lower 
pinnules, which are ternatisect and deeply toothed or 
serrate, the teeth tipped with red-brown, which colour 
sometimes extends all round the leaf-lobes ; petiole one and 
a half to two inches long, coiled at the base. Peduncle 
axillary, solitary, as long as the leaves or longer, erect, 
naked, bearing a solitary head two and a half inches in 
diameter. IJnvolucral bracts herbaceous, biseriate, linear, 
obtuse ; outer series five, stellately spreading, about half 
as long and broad as the inner, which are erect, connivent 
in a cylindric tube three-fourths of an inch long. Ray- 
flowers about 10; corolla-tube very short, limb spreading, 
oblong, two-nerved, three-toothed, bright scarlet above, 
dirty yellow beneath; style-arms long, very slender ; 
achene fertile, oblong, flattened, tip two-horned ; pappus 0. 
Disk-flowers many, yellow ; corolla-tube long, slender, lobes 
five, recurved ; anthers elongate, base obtuse ; style slender, 
pubescent, except towards the base, tip shortly bifid; 
achene slender, cylindric, barren ; pappus 0.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Ray-flower and inc a ae : : : 
3, stamen ; 4, style :—Al/ 2) ae at eee emer: 2 disk-Tomte 
