upper part, where it forms a thickly leaved bushy head : 
branches round closishly leaved shaggy flowerbearing at the 
upper part. Leaves numerous, sessile, scattered, shaggy, 
halved-elliptic, lanceolate, suberectly spreading, flatwise 
‘perpendicular, obliquely pointed from the inner side, awned, 
the awn terminating the outer and straighter edge of the 
leaf, one-nerved (the nerve equidistant from both edges), 
from 4 to 3 of an inch long and about three times narrower. 
Stipules minute, ovate, rusty red, caducous. Flowers yel- 
low, in heads: heads globular, several in a raceme or some- 
times solitary, smaller than a middle-sized. pea; racemes 
axillary at the upper part of the branches, numerous, longer 
than the leaves, stiff, outspread, with several loosely set 
flowerheads ; pedicles scattered towards the top of the com- 
‘mon peduncle or axis, stout, round, furred, whitish green, 
about the length of the diameter of the flowerheads. Calyx 
-minute, tomentose, white, 5-cleft. Petals 5, straw-coloured, 
_considerably longer than the calyx, unguiculate with a lan- 
ceolately elliptical lamina, slightly hairy on the outside. 
Stamens deep yellow, twice the length of the petals: anthers 
‘twin-globular. — Style deep yellow, twice thicker than the 
filaments, inserted on one side the summit of the germen. 
Germen quite smooth, subtrapezoid, oblong, compressed, 
tapered towards one edge, nearly transparent, blunt at both 
ends. 
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