pink veins; terminal lobe deltoid, deeply cordate at the 

 base. Cymes axillary and terminal, long-peduncled, much 

 branched ; the alternate forming subglobose long-peduncled 

 heads; dark ochreous yellow; bracts at the base of the 

 peduncles and of the involucre small, subulate. Heads half 

 of an inch long, on short slender pedicels, cylindnc. 

 hivolucral hracts five, broadly linear, subacute, margins 

 hyaline, green, reddish towards the tips. Flowers about ten, 

 all tubular and hermaphrodite, exceeding the involucre. 

 Corolla-tube slender ; lobes short. Anthers entirely exserted. 

 Style exserted, arms slender, with short terminal cones. 

 Achene short, ribbed, setulose ; pappus snow-white, soft.— 

 J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Head ; 2, flower ; 3, style-arms :— all enlarged. 



