cosely nerved; lateral lobes oblong, somewhat ascendent, 
not uniform; terminal one large, ovate, doubly and some- 
times sinuately indented. Peduncles several, sometimes 
many, radical, equal to or nearly twice the length of the 
foliage, one-flowered, round, thick, striate, piped, roughened 
by a close partly purple-coloured longish pile, sometimés 
with a linear bracte at some distance below the flower, now 
and then with a leaf near the base, from the angle of which 
another peduncle is produced. Flower exceeding two inches 
in diameter; ray yellow within, puce-coloured red without, 
rolling outwards as it decays, disk nearly black. Outer 
scales of the calyx araneously pubescent, terminated by a 
longish narrow subulate shaft, part of them reflectent, part 
pressed to the inner. In respect to the other parts of the 
flower; they resemble nearly those of Arcroris aureola, of 
the 32d article of this work, except that the paleaceous 
pappus of the seed is of one, not of two ranks, as in 
that. . 
A hardy greenhouse plant. Propagated by dividing the 
root. — 
The drawing was~made at the nursery of Messrs. Lee 
and Kennedy at Hammersmith. ~ 
a A floret of the ray. 6 A sterile floret of the disk. c A vertical sec- 
tion of calyx and receptacle. 
