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and cordate at the base, produced into long entire conduplicate 
decurved points, the upper linear or auriculato-caudate ; cyme 
small divaricately branched few-fid. ; ped. rather short divari- 
cate, thickly clothed or echinulato-hispid like the inner scales of 
the anthod. downwards with short black capitate setules or glan- 
dular pubescence, but otherwise naked or entirely ebracteate ; 
scales of calycle lax, quite smooth like the upper halves of the 
inner, which are more than twice as long as the outer and densely 
glandular-hispid towards their base, with their edges or in- 
terstices slightly m e aly -p u b e r.u 1 o u s ; fl. rather large somewhat 
dark golden-y. ; heads in fr. ovato-ventricose ; ach. dark-brown 
or black, all rather shortly attenuato-beaked, ribbed and trans- 
versely rugulose ; pappus short scarcely longer than the inner 
scales of the pericline. — Barkhauda divaricata Prim. 20 ; DC. ! 
vii. 157. — Herb. ann. or subbien. March-June. Yarr. : — 
a. robusta ; st. single about a foot high erect virgate many- 
Hd. leafy, lower 1. runcinato-pinnatifid ; outer scales of anthod. 
quite smooth. — B. divaricata a Lowe 1. c. ; DC. ! 1. c. Crepis 
denticuUita Sol. ! in BII. ; Bucli ! 194. no. 226. — Mad. reg. 
1, rrr. P ta de S. Louren 90 , only on the Ilheo dos Embarca- 
dores, but there most abundantly j PS. reg. 1, r. Bib. do 
Cochim or Cochino near the town to the westward. 
ft. pumila ; st. mostly several spreading few-fld. ; 1. undi- 
vided subentire much waved rigid stiff and fleshy thickly 
tufted ; ped. and heads more hispid almost shaggy and more or 
less farinoso-puberulous, outer scales rarely subpubescent. — B. 
divaricata (3 Lowe 1. c. ; DC. ! 1. c. — PS. reg. 1 and lower part 
of 2, cc, in cornfields, waste ground and by roadsides all about 
the town, east, west, and north ; ND. at top, ccc, abundant ; 
GD. reg. 2, r, up the central valley sparingly ; SD. reg. 2, rr. 
Boot stout simple fleshy fusiform. Foliage large and copi- 
ous altogether smooth, of a peculiar bright yellowish apple-gr., 
and crisp or stiffish succulent substance. St. 6-12 in. high, never 
more than 12, in ft much less, gr. stiff stout solid furrowed 
branched from the base, smooth below, sprinkled gradually 
more and more upwards with short minute bulbous blackish or 
atropurpureous glandular pubescence, sparingly fork-branched, 
with a narrow decurved producto-acuminate leaf at each fork. 
Lower 1. forming a thick tuft at the crown of the root, the lowest 
in a sinuato-runcinate or pinnatifidly lyrate, the upper or st.-l. 
less divided and broadly dilated or auricled at the base, all but 
the lowest acuminate much waved and puckered. In ft all the 1. 
are mostly quite undivided or only occasionally gashed, and 
entire or shallowly and sharply recurvato-denticulate. FI. of 
a rather darker golden-y. than usual, about an in. in diam. so- 
litary on simple erect still' ped., not thickened upwards but 
densely clothed with short black glandular pubescence, widely 
