Stem striated, all over hairy. Leaves reniform, acumi- 
nate, coriaceous, cartilaginous-crenate, smooth above, to- 
mentose beneath, the upper veiny, their stalk winged, in- 
flated, changed by degrees into’ common, oblong, mem- 
branous bractes, now and then foliaceous at the end. Ra- 
-ceme cylindrical, many-flowered, simple. Flower-stalks 
rounded, with a little bractea in the middle; the bractea 
ovate, concave, withered, deciduous, the length of the in- 
volucrum, which is deeply many-parted, cylindrical: the 
leaflets oblong, recurved and withered at the end. Flowers 
yellow, radiate, the rays 3-toothed or entire. 
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