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cid, variable polymorphous i. e. oblong lanceolate or ligulate, 
acute or acuminate, either undivided and remotely toothed, or 
finely pinnatisect with narrow long linear remote laciniae, or 
ligulato-coronopiform and pinnatifidly toothed, the number of 
laciniae or teeth in all cases mostly 5 or 6 (3-6) on each side ; 
very rarely all simple linear-elongate entire ; upper 1. of floral 
branches few and inconspicuous, simple linear nearly or quite 
entire ; cyme remotely few-fld. divaricately forked proliferous, 
ped. more or less thickened upwards and with their br. and the 
scales of anthod. mealy-puberulous ; br. at top of ped. and 
base of inv. rather few short erect lax, the latter not above 
4 or | the length of the inner close-pressed scales ; fl. rather 
large uniform bright golden-y. : pappus of all the ach. of 10 
or 12 (10-15) bristly hairs 2-3 times the length of the ach. — 
Crepis succulenta, C. tenuifolia and C. Jiliformis Sol. ! MSS. 
in BII ; Ait. ! Ilort. Kew. (ed. 1 ) iii. *128. Crepis tenui- 
folia , C. succulenta , and C. Jiliformis Buch ! 194. nos. 229, 230, 
231 ; Tolpis fruticosa , T. pectinata , and T. Jiliformis DC. ! vii. 
87 ; T. Jiliformis and T. fruticosa Schultz in WB. ii. 399. — 
Shr. per. Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3, ccc ; PS. reg. 1,4, r ; ND. r, or ± ; 
GD. c ; SD. reg. 1, r. Sea-cliffs, rocks and rocky banks every- 
where below 3000 ft. in Mad. Apr.-Sept. — A loose straggling 
or flauntingly and sparingly branched shr. 2 or 3 ft. high, quite 
smooth except the young branches, ped., br. and anthod. which 
are slightly mealy-puberulous, or tomentulose. From the short 
irregular shrubby woody stock or stem spring annually several 
weak slender diffuse fl. -branches 1-3 ft. long woody chestnut- 
brown or red or purple downwards, gr. upwards hard round ribbed 
or striate. L. aggregate in tufts or roses at the base of the 
H. -branches, bright shining gr. quite smooth 2-4 in. long, mostly 
acute, attenuated downwards into a more or less distinct pe- 
tiole, very variable in form and division ; but with mostly very 
uniformly 5 or 6 remote equidistant teeth or lobes on each 
aide ; the upper or floral br. always linear, mostly entire, few 
and solitary at the forks of the cyme ; the latter sparingly and 
irregularly prolif'erously fork -branched, compound, almost or 
quite leafless, not inany-fld. Ped. all rather short, especially 
the primary, bracteate and mealy-tomentulose at top. Heads 
oblong mealy-tomentose distinctly grey or hoary. Scales or 
br. of ped. and calycle not numerous, short ovate or linear- 
lanceolate finely acuminate, linear-subulate in the dried pi., at 
first close-pressed, afterwards loosely erect at least on the 
ped. Fl. f-lj or \\ in. in diam., full golden-y., the outer li- 
gules pale olive dusky at the back ; anthers and styles exserted 
above tube of florets, the stigmas united into a long single dark 
or dusky olive filament quite up to the bifid top. ltecept. con- 
vex alveolate naked. Ach. dark chestnut brown or blackish 
rather larger and smoother than in T. umbellata , millim. 
