Dusor. A tall shrub or undershrub, ten feet high as cul- 
tivated at Kew, branches and leaves beneath pubescent or 
tomentose, as are the branches of the panicle and involucres. 
Leaves eight to twenty inches long by a foot broad or less, 
variable in breadth, much smaller in Abyssinian and 
Angolan specimens, margin sometimes lobulate, always 
acutely toothed. Heads in corymbosely panicled clusters, 
two to three feet broad, subsessile. Jnvolucre half-inch 
_ long, cylindrical before the upper scales spread and fall 
away; scales broadly ovate, obtuse, green, coriaceous. 
Flowers four to five; corolla pink, tube twice as long as 
the involucre ; anthers and stigmas yellow. Achenes ten- 
ribbed, thinly hairy when ripe, glandular between the ribs. 
Pappus scabrid, double, pale yellow or white, outer hairs 
very short.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Head of flower; 2, flower; 3, pappus hair; 4, stamens :—all en- 
larged ; 5, reduced figures of whole plant. sels 
