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time. Radical leaves tufted at the top of stolons, long- 



petiolate, deep green above, paler beneath, glabrous, ovato- 

 rotund in outline, attaining about 4cm. in length and width, 

 herbaceous, deeply few-pinnatiparted with apartly arranged 

 pinnae and a winged rachis ; pinnae usually 2 on each side, erect- 

 patent or patulous, obovate, narrowed into a short petiolule at 

 the base, inciso-parted into pinnato-subflabellate lobes with 

 acute sinuses; lobes deltoid-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 often again cleft into minute subulate few lobules ; petiole attain- 

 ing about 6cm. long, dilated and amplexicaul at the base, promi- 

 nent beneath, shallowly grooved in front, ve.y angustately 

 alato-marginal, viridescent. Plead terminal, erect, about 



4cm. across, white, slightly odoriferous. Involucre cupuliform, 

 about ljcm. in diameter, glabrous ; scales appressed, imbricated, 

 1- or sub-3- nerved, the midrib rather strong, with short 

 anastomotic and free veins on bosh sides ; outer ones 

 shorter, linear, herbaceous, thickish, often shortely appendicu- 

 lately alato-dilated at the top, about 5-6mm. long ; inner 

 ones broad, elliptical-oblong to angustato-oblong, slightly 

 dilated and rounded-obtuse with erosulate margin at the apex, 

 narrowly green and herbaceous in centre, broadly pale-scarious 

 and enerved on both sides, light umber on the subentire margin, 

 about 6— 7mm. long, 2— 3mm. broad. Receptacle semisphaerico- 

 convex, light green, minutely subarveolate, naked, about 4 mm. 

 across. Ray-flowers about 20 in number, 1-serial, radiately 

 spreading, fertile ; corolla about 19— 22mm. long ; tube short 

 and narrow, slightly compressed antero-posteriorly, angulate 

 on both lateral edges, smooth and light green, very thinly 

 dispersed with minute transparent granular glands, about 2Jmm. 

 long; ligule broad-linear to oblong-linear, entire, 4— 5mm. broad, 

 shortly acutely attenutated to the tube, obtuse and very shortly 

 bi-tri-fid at the apex, 7— 8-nerved. Disk-flowers numerous; 

 corolla 3mm. long, very thinly dispersed with transparent 

 granular glands externally ; tube straight, stout, as long as the 

 throat 4- lobes portion, yellowish-pale; throat shortly campa- 

 nulate, light yellow ; lobes 5, erect-patent, nearly as long as the 

 throat, deltoid, acute, yellow. Anthers not exserted, collectively 



