the segments very narrow-linear, almost filiform, entire, 
somewhat fleshy, convex or nearly semicylindrical on the 
under side, above marked with a furrow. Peduncles termi- 
nal, slender, single-flowered. Flower rather large, hand- 
some. Involucre almost globose: inner of six to eight 
somewhat imbricated, ovate scales; outer of the same 
number of linear-subulate, spreading ones, arising from the 
base of the inner, and there forming one with them. Ray 
of eight to nine, obovate, irregularly three to five-toothed, 
spreading, orange-yellow corollas: their tube short: Ger- 
men linear, abortive, destitute of pappus. Corolla of the 
disk tubular, dark blood-coloured, glabrous. Anther-tube 
black, exserted. Pollen yellow. 
