smooth above, beneath and at the margin beset with numer- 
ous short bristles, each seated ona small white callous point. 
Petiole very long, sometimes measuring a foot or a foot and 
a half, below dilated into a sheathing base. The leaves 
gradually become smaller and narrower and less stalked 
upwards, and among the flower-stalks they pass into brac- 
teas about an inch long, often spreading and with their 
margins involute. Flowers paniculate, large, handsome, 
yellow. Involucre globose, of several roundish, green, 
closely imbricated, glabrous scales, innermost ones smaller 
and longer. Corollas of the ray numerous, ligulate, entire 
at the apex, each bearing a pistil. Segments of the style 
long, filiform. Achenium obovate, flat, scarcely downy, 
bearing a small blunt awn. Florets of the disk each sub- 
tended by a blunt, linear-oblong scale. Corolla yellow. 
Anthers protruded, dark brown. Style linear, filiform, 
entire. Germen cylindrical, slightly downy, abortive. 
Fig. 1. Florets of the Ray. 2. Discal or abortive Floret, with its accom- 
panying Scale. 3. Achenium :—magnified. 
