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ceptacle narrow, tumid. Ray-florets twelve to fifteen, 
spreading and deflexed, golden-yellow; tube very short, 
limb cuneiform, three-lobed, dorsally hairy towards the 
base; style short, arms linear, recurved. Disk-florets 
forming a globose or hemispheric golden-yellow head; 
corolla tubular, shortly obtusely five-lobed, papillosely | 
hairy; anthers included, linear, connective unguiform ; 
style exserted, arms as in the ray-florets. Achenes of ray 
and disk-florets short, obconic, hirsute, crowned with five 
or six, broadly ovate or orbicular, erect pappus scales, each 
terminated by a rigid bristle as long as itself.—J. D. H. — 
Fig. 1, bract of involucre; 2, base of ray-floret; 3, disk-floret ; 4, anthers ; 
5, style-branches ; 6, achene; 7, scale of pappus :—All enlarged. 
