Messrs. Colvill, in the King’s Road ;. where the plant flowers 
at nearly all times of the year. 
Suffrutescent? from three to four feet high, rough, 
oppositely branched; branches generally trichotomously di- 
vided at the end, round, leafy. Leaves hispid, lightly ci- 
nereous, opposite, distant, lanceolately ovate, obsoletely 
serrate, four or five inches long, about ‘two’ broad, shortly 
cuneate at the base: petiole several times shorter than the 
leaf, roughly fringed. Peduncles solitary,, _1-flowered, 
terminal, upright, longer than the leaves. Flowers upright, 
yellow, something more than an inch and a half in dia- 
meter. Calyx herbaceous, hard, rough, shallower than 
the disk of the corolla, urceolately squarrose ; leaflets many, 
in several rows, spreading gradually wider as they descend, 
oblong ; lowermost decussately extended with an ovate. la- 
mina roughened on both sides and a nearly obsolete unguis; 
middlemost upright below, spreading above; uppermost in 
great part membranous, spreading only at the tip. Ray 
pistilliferous, palish yellow on both sides, of about 12 rays, 
imbricately contiguous, a good deal lower than the disk ; 
florets caducous, oboyate, oblong, slightly convex, notched, 
slightly hairy near the tube ; séigmas capillary, channelled, 
- even With the disk; germen linear, compressed, obsoletely 
3-cornered, villous; pappus 4 times shorter or more, of one 
piece, compressedly cupped, oblong,villous, fimbriately jagged, 
jags unequal feathery. Disk staminiferous and _pistillife- 
rous, deep yellow, narrow; florets many, clavately cylin- 
drical, slender; tube smooth, opaque, much longer than 
the germen, faux diaphanous but little widened, 5-cornered, 
segments of the limb deep yellow, spreading, shallow, ta- 
pered, with a thickened villous deeper-coloured margin: fila- 
ments elastic ; anther nearly black, with five yellow ovately 
tapered valves at the top; pollen deep yellow ; stigmas deep 
yellow, protruded, rolled spirally backward, linear, chan- 
nelled, villous at the back and at the edges of the channel; 
germen as in the ray, only thicker, somewhat 4-cornered, 
more copiously pubescent at the corners, and with a rather 
deeper pappus. Receptacle paleaceous, flat: palew diapha- 
nous, convolutely sheathing, prominently keeled, furnished 
at the top with a deep yellow lanceolately ovate flat up- 
right keelless villous appendage. 
