In the confusion that exists throughout the whole of 
Composite, it is no easy task to say whether a genus is 
published or unpublished. The present may have made 
its appearance in some work with which we are unac- 
quainted, or in some place that we have not succeeded in 
discovering. We believe, however, that it is new. It 
differs from all the Corymbiferous genera with hairy 
pappus, in having an outer squarrose involucrum, and 
an inner one formed of a number of erect, channelled 
scales. Its nearest affinity is probably Munnozia, from 
which it differs in the scales of the involucrum not being 
trifid at the extremity, and in its alternate leaves. 
Stem herbaceous, erect, somewhat branched, about 
two feet high, striated, covered with hairs and viscid 
glands. Leaves simple, sessile, stem-clasping, ovate- 
lanceolate, somewhat pinnatifid, pale green, ‘glandular on 
each side. Heads corymbose, radiant. Peduncles with 
a few bractee, densely glandular. Jnvolucrum double, 
hemispherical; the outer in a single row, consisting of 
numerous subulate, glandular, squarrose scales, occa- 
sionally bifid at the apex; the inner campanulate in a 
single row, consisting of several erect channelled scales, 
somewhat squarrose at the apex, smooth on the inside, 
glandular on the outside. Morets of the ray female, ligu- 
late, entire, or somewhat trifid at the apex, with a long 
filiform tube. lorets of the disc hermaphrodite, filiform, 
tubular, with a small, 5-toothed, erect limb. Stamens 
without appendages at the base. Receptacle smooth. 
Style filiform. Stigmas 2, linear, spreading, truncate and 
shaggy at the apex. Mruit smooth, striated. Pappus 
hairy, roughish. 
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