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DESCRIPTIO. 
Cauuis fruticosus, orgyalis, diffusé ramosus, lævis. 
Rami patentes teretes, cicatricibus foliorum emortuo- 
rum quasi squamosi, apice foliati. 
Foura conferta, spathulato-lanceolata, patentia, 
acula, profundè confertimque crenata, crenis apice 
cartilagineis luteis, suprà glabra, viridia, trinervia, 
subtüs albo-lanata , palmaria. Petioli longitudine ferè 
foliorum, compressi, basi ramos subvaginantes. 
Prouncuri solitarii, terminales, uniflori, palmares, 
squamati, foliolis numerosis, oblongis, integris, dorso 
lanatis basi vaginantibus , snpiiarne Flores 
ampli, disco luteo. 
CaLyx comMuNIS spbfintidiegue, squamis linearibus, 
acutis , subviscosis , subæqualibus , erectis, corollæ 
radio ferè triplo brevioribus, sublanatis. 
CoroLLa composira, radiata; corollulis herma- 
phroditis numerosis in En. fœmineis un in 
radio. 
CoroLLa PROPRIA, in LRO infundibulifor- 
mis, limbo 5-fido revoluto; in fæmineis ligulata; ligulà 
lanceolatà apice 3-dentatà , horizontali. 
Sramia in hermaphroditis 5 ; filamentis subulatis 
erectis ; antheris cylindricis, tubulosis : in fœmineis 
éfinents 5 filiformia; anthera nulla. 
GERMEN in hermaphroditis fœmineisque oblongum. 
Stylus filiformis, tubo longior ; stigma bifidum patens. 
Sema solitaria oblonga, pubescentia. Pappus pilo- 
sus. Receptaculum nudum. (Forster. mss, ) : 
