beneath, undulated, rather obtuse, the lower half, or more than 
that, sinuato-pinnatifid ; about the middle the lobes and sinuses 
are broad and shallow, towards the base of the leaf they are 
gradually smaller and deeper (profunde pinnatifida), with lobes 
rounded and entire. The superior leaves are sessile or nearly 
so, while the lower ones taper into a sta/&é nearly an inch long. 
Spike on a short, rounded, hairy, terete, erect, terminal peduncle, 
formed into a sharply four-sided kind of strobilus, by the nu- 
merous, large, opposite, submembranaceous, pale yellow-green, 
rounded, very hairy, veined, acutely keeled dracteas, the margin 
strongly dentato-spinulose. Bracteoles linear-lanceolate. Calyx 
green, hairy at the extremity, membranaceous, quite concealed 
by the bracteas. Corollas bright yellow, glabrous. Zuée much 
exserted, slender, geniculated where the included s/amens are in- 
serted. Limé plane, of five segments ; above the fissure reaches 
to the tube. Ovary oblong. Style glandularly hairy. Stigma 
dimidiate, fringed. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Ovary :—magnijied. 
