long ; the outer linear-acuminate, acute, with spinulose 

 margins ; the inner ovate, acuminate, acute, with membranous 

 margins. Receptacle convex, honeycombed. Ray-florets 

 neuter, 3'2 cm. long; the limb 1*2 cm. broad, obovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, with a broad mouse-coloured band beneath and about 

 15- veined. Disc florets hermaphrodite, 1*2 cm. long; tube 

 5-angled ; lobes 4 mm. long, linear-oblong, obtuse. Anthers 

 minutely tailed at the base. Pappus of delicate linear 

 acuminate scales hidden by the long hairs which cover the 

 ovary. Ovary densely villous ; style with a thickened ring 

 about the middle ; lobes linear, obtuse. 



Plate 51.— Kg. 1, flowers and leaves ; Fig. 2, upper portion of style ; 

 Fig. 3, stamens ; Fig. 4, longitudinal section of capitulum with hairs from 

 ovary removed ; Fig. 5, corolla laid open ; Fig. 6, disc-floret, showing pappus, 

 with hairs from the ovary removed ; Fig. 7, plant, much reduced. 



F.P.S.A., 1922. 



