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35-80cin high including the terminal inflorescence, in flower season bare 

 from leaves which early withered at the inferior portion, thickest ones about 

 3mm in diameter. Leaves tomentose-hirsiite on both surfaces, especially 

 hispid-pubescent on the midrib and veins on the under surface, ciliated, 

 rather thin, herbaceous, green ; radical ones long and slender-petioled, ovate, 

 ovate-oblong, or oblong, crenate-dentate with usually mucronate-obtuse teeth, 

 acute or obtuse at the base and mucronate-obtuse at -the apex ; cauline 

 ones sparse, loosely placed, spreading or reflexed, lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, often sub-falcate, broadly narrowed and then gradually a little 

 dilated towards and amplexicaul and rounded-subauricled or sometimes 

 merely obtuse at the base, gradually tapering towards the mucronate-obtuse 

 or acute apex, serrate or crenate-dentate with mucronate-tipped teeth, 

 subtriplinerved with loose veins, largest ones 13cm long, 3|cm wide, 

 superior ones smaller,, and finally passing into the small entire bracts 

 in the inflorescence. Corymb terminal, bracteate, flat at the top, 

 rather dense, about 4-1 6cm broad, peduncle and pedicels slender and 

 densely tomentose-pubescent with white hairs, the erect-patent peduncles 

 branching above into the strict or slightly curved pedicels which are much 

 longer than the heads ; bracteoles on the pedicel few, often minute and 

 acute linear-spathulate. Head about 2cm in diameter. Receptacle more 

 or less convex, foveolate. Involucre shortly companulate, obtuse at the 

 base, 4-5mm in diameter ; involucral-bracts rather many, few-serial, im- 

 bricate, herbaceous, pubeecent externally and ciliated, oblong-linear, 1-nerved, 

 acute or obtuse, outer ones much shorter, green, thicker, inner ones scarious 

 but greenish above, even often purplish at the tip, outer shortest one 2mm 

 long and inner longest one about 4jmm long. Ray-flowers 13-20 or 

 more in number, patent : corolla white, 8-10 mm long ; ligule oblong- 

 ligulate, thin, 4-nerved, rounded and retuse at the apex, slightly narrowed 

 below ; tubular part much shorter than , the ligule, narrow, glabrous, with 

 thickish throat. Disk-flowers numerous : corolla yellow, 4-5mm long ; 

 tubular-part narrow, glabrous, shorter than throat-part ; throat campanulate, 

 thin, pilose at the base ; lobes 5 or sometimes 6, narrowly deltoid, acutish, 

 reflexed. Anther hardly exserted, about 2mm long, obtuse at the base, 

 connective-tip acute and narrow ; filament filiform, glabrous, a little shorter 

 than the anther. Style filiform, straight, glabrous, stouter and longer in 

 those of the disk-flowers ; arms in ray-flower narrow-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 divergent, stigmatiferous throughout the whole margin ; in disk-flower lanceo- 

 late, acutish, stigmatiferous in more than lower half, appendage deltoid, 

 papillose-hairy. Pappus reddish-rufous, longer than the tubular part 



