tube 7 mm. long, cylindric ; limb 1*7 mm. long, 4 - 5 mm. broad, 

 lanceolate, bifid at the apex, with each lobe minutely 2-toothed, 

 about 7-nerved and distinctly 2-keeled beneath. Disc-florets 

 hermaphrodite ; corolla-tube 6 mm. long, subcylindric, some- 

 what 5-angled, glabrous ; lobes 1*5 mm. long, *5 mm. broad, 

 lanceolate, obtuse. Pappus of hyaline linear scales 1*5 mm. 

 long. Ovary covered with long silky hairs ; style 7 mm. long, 

 cylindric (lengthening with age); stigmas '75 long, linear, 

 obtuse. 



Plate 64. — Fig. 1, young flower head ; Fig. 2, section through involucre ; 

 Fig. 3, flower head just before opening ; Fig. 4, surface view of flower head ; 

 Fig. 5, corolla of ray-florets ; Fig. 6, disc floret ; Fig. 7, leaf ; all variously 

 enlarged. 



F.P.S.A., 1922. 



