faces, having pubescence and hairs similar to those on the 
stem, especially when young ; subglabrous when old ; 
strongly marked on both sides with elevated veins, which 
are generally trichotomously branched, once or twice trifid, 
cuneate and once or twice twisted at the base, edges placed 
vertically ; the segments terminated with long, pungent mu- 
cros; the lower leaves undivided, rounded and toothed at 
the apex, the teeth terminating in pungent mucros. Heads 
of Flowers crowded at the termination of the stem) and 
branches. Scales of the Involucre pubescent and hairy, 
smaller inwards, acute, reflected, subdentate. Perianth 
soft, rose-coloured, darkest at the tip, densely covered with 
spreading, white hairs, tube very slender, segments of the 
limb reflexed. Anthers linear, yellow. Pollen granules 
roundish-triangular, shining, orange yellow. Style as long 
as the perianth, fusiform at the apex, below it tumid, and 
densely covered with yellow, reflected, crystalline pubes- 
cence. Stigmatic surface terminal. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified. 
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