ASTER NOBILIS 9351 
about 2; measuring usually 7 x 4 in., or less, and gradually 
diminished upward. 
Axiles oblong-lanceolate, broad to the sessile base, slit-serrate, 
often prominently and aculeately so, often conduplicate around 
the subtended branch, 4 x 124 in. or less. 
Rameals few and remote below, 1 or 2 subopposite pairs a 
little below the heads, oblong-acuminate with sessile clasping base. 
Bracteals among the pedicels very peculiar, subulate-recurved, 
strongly conduplicate, triangular-acuminate, with an enlarged con- 
cave base and narrowed channeled recurved portion. 
Villous hair weak and soft, confined to veins beneath or shorter 
and downy between them.  Glandular hair sparse; subsessile 
glands occur over all midribs, and, though minute and few, on the 
pedicels and bracts. 
Petioles green, fleshy, channelled, smooth and stout. 
Inflorescence cymose-paniculate, when well developed very 
