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Leaves sessile or sub-sessile, lanceolate and ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, mucronate ; base somewhat cuneate, sub-decurrent, 

 obscurely three-nerved ; margins quite entire, sub-re volute, short 

 appressed pubescent chiefly above, glandular-scabrous throughout, 

 densely sub-papillose-glandular beneath ; fohage rather dry and 

 rigid, green alike above and below. 



Bracts four or five, apparently reduced leaves, lanceolate, sessile, 

 three to five-nerved. 



Heads few, small, campanulate, in loose paniculoid-corymbs or 

 sub-solitary ; pedicels long or variable. Flowers yellow. 



Involucre of eight e(jual, long, linear, acuminate scales, very 

 villous at the attenuated apex (see No, 6), sparsely apiiresscd 

 pubescent and glandular on the back, three-nerved, one or two slen- 

 der scales of an inner series. 



Receptacle alveolar, densely villous, with white hairs from between 

 the entire alveoli ; disk heterocarpous ; florets similar, outer ones 

 expanded ; external ligule three-toothed about twice the length of 

 the opposite two-toothed (not "bi-parted") sub-re volute lip, teeth 

 villous or bearded on the back (as seen at No. 4) ; long throat 

 dilated upw^trds from a very short tube, five-nerved sparsely sca- 

 brous upwards, at length nearly concealed in the elongated tawny 

 pappus. 



Central florets erect, often unexpanded ; lips sub-equal, the larger 

 enfolding the lesser two-toothed lip ; pistil purplish, the recurve 

 spreading branches semi-cylindric, glabrous ; stigma obtuse, sub- 

 two-lobed ; pappillose bearded below (see No. 5) ; anthers yellow ; 

 hnear lance-pointed. 



The larger, outer and chiefly fertile achenia, oblong, obovate, 

 cuneate, slightly compressed, rostrate ; beak erect, glabrous, other- 

 wise pap})illos8-glandular and sparsely appressed pubescent, slightly 

 ribbed ; pappus sessile, somewhat lateral at the summit (see No. 

 2), or the ovary often partially separated from the pajipoid calyx 

 tube (as at No. o) ; capillary pappus scabrous upwards, articu- 

 lated (?) above the base, and deciduous, or very fragile, leaving 

 the bases attached (as seen at No, o) ; central achenia linear 

 cylindrical when infertile, or fertile and tcretish, long and tapering 

 at each end, minutely five-ribbed, sub-pappillose-scabrous ; pappus 

 sub-stipitate (No. 1). 



This s[;ecies aj)j;eai-s to diflcr from its allies chiefly in the nerved 

 leaves and bracts, &c. — its appressed pubescence — the florets also 

 are not pilose, nor the lesser lip bi-parted, as geuerically noted ; 

 and where so much importance is attached to the stigma, its sub- 

 lobed form is Avorthy of note. The alveolar receptacle, and perhaps 

 the bearded teeth of the flowers, will be found to be quite char- 

 acteristic. 



