the base ciliated: the rest quite glabrous and of a very 
flaccid texture. Peduncles much elongated, sometimes 
almost a foot long, each tipped with a large handsome deep 
yellow flower, bearing a circle or crown of deep brown or. 
blood-coloured spots at a distance from the disk. Corollas 
of the ray neuter, large, cuneate, deeply four-fid, the two 
middle segments the longest and often emarginate : those 
of the disk (which is small,) infundibuliform. Anthers 
black, the appendage deep-orange. Achenia compressed, 
oblong-obovate, bearing two or three small lanceolate, 
white, chaffy scales. JInvolucre double: outer of about 
eight leaflets, which are linear, herbaceous, and glabrous ; 
__ mner, about as long as the outer, oval, membranaceous, 
clothed externally with white, succulent hairs. Receptacle 
scaly ; scales linear-subulate, chafly, nearly as long as the 
flower. 4 
Fig. 1. Floret of the Ray. 2. Floret of the Disk, with a Scale of the Re- 
eeptacle :—magnified. 
