furrowed on the upper side, glabrous, mucronate, bright 
ereen, smaller and cartilaginous at the base. Capitulum 
terminal, receptacle densely covered with short white wool. 
Bracteas ovate, acute, the outer ones having a leaf-like 
apex. Perianth silky, deciduous, four-parted, concave and 
red internally in the apices of the segments. Anthers ob- 
long, yellow, sessile in the apices of the perianth ; Pollen- 
granules angular. Stigma articulate, the upper portion 
hairy, about twice as long as the green, glabrous, angular, 
turbinate lower portion. Style longer than the perianth, 
capillary. Germen sessile, every where covered with long, 
white, érect hairs, green, corticular, ovule solitary. Gra- 
ham. 
Fig. 1. Flower, with its Bractea. 2. Bractea. 3. Pistil: magnified. 
