terete, with 3-4 of the subulate leaves or bracts, glabrous. 

 Flower-head solitary, discoid, scarlet-red. Involucral- scales in 

 a single row of 10-12, more or less concrete, 1*5 cm. long, 

 1 mm. broad, linear, obtuse, ciliated at the apex, brick-red. 

 Receptacle 3 mm. in diameter, flat. Florets all hermaphrodite. 

 Corolla-tube 2 cm. long, cylindric, glabrous, scarlet-red above, 

 colourless below ; lobes 3*5 mm. long, 0*75 mm. broad, linear, 

 obtuse, scarlet-red. Stamens inserted about halfway down the 

 corolla-tube ; filaments 6 mm. long, filiform, becoming linear 

 for 1/5 mm. below the anthers ; anthers 2*5 mm. long, linear, 

 blunt at the base, tipped at the apex with a linear appendage 

 1*6 mm. long. Ovary 2*5 mm. long, linear in outline, glabrous ; 

 style 2 mm. long, cylindric, glabrous ; style-arms 4 mm. long, 

 linear, tipped with a bristly cone. Pappus of white hairs 

 1*6 cm. long, distantly barbellate. Fruit not seen. 



[A few years before the war a plant of this species was 

 sent by Mr. J. Burtt Davy to Kew Gardens, where it flowered 

 annually, but has since died. — N. E. Beown.] 



Plate 28. — Fig. 1, flower (enlarged) ; Fig. 2, style-arms ; Fig. 3, stamens ; 

 Fig. 4, cross-section of stem. 



F.P.S.A., 1921. 



