Stem shrubby, branching; branches round, slightly an- 
gular, ascendent, somewhat corymbose, herbaceous at the 
upper part, leafy. Leaves numerous, scattered round, near, 
uprightly spreading, glaucous, fleshy, linear, pinnatifid, flat 
above with a faintly raised middle nerve, 3 or 4 inches 
long, segments opposite or sometimes alternate, very dis- 
tant, quite entire with a sharp point, the two lowermost 
about equal to and exactly like the main or middle part, the 
2 uppermost three times shorter than the other or more; 
leaves next the flowers ternate or sometimes quite simple. 
Flowers several (4-6) in the axils of the top leaves, disposed 
in a wideset corymb; peduncles solitary, one-flowered, 
slender, fluted, longer than the leaves, upright. Flower 
about an inch and an half across, scentless, with a white 
ray: calyx shallow, hemispherical, smooth, closely imbri- 
cant, leaflets increasing gradually in size in the inner ranks, 
scariose at the edge, the inmost of all rounded with a 
brown scariose blade, outermost very small, subulate, con- 
vex, glaucous: ray twice broader than the disk or more; 
JSlorets linearly oblong, narrow, two-furrowed, two-nerved, 
convex along the middle, obtuse, three-toothed, bent back 
at the edges, ¢ube short, green, glandularly pubescent; 
stigmas 2 protruded, yellow, short, linear, revolute, not 
‘pubescent at the top, channelled on the inside; disk deep 
yellow, florets short, about even with the tubes of the ray, 
glitteringly frosted, ¢ube curved thickish, fawr campanulate, 
segments of the limb angularly ovate spreading, recurved, 
twice shorter than the faux; stigmas 2, deep yellow, revo- 
lutely divergent, short, linear, channelled on the insitle, 
widened and pubescent at the tips. Germens of the ray 
elliptic, quite smooth, convex on the outside, concave on the 
inside, three-ribbed, rib membranously winged and toothed, 
2 at the sides, one along the middle fronting inwards: pap- 
pus a short membranous unequally toothed slanting border: 
germens of the disk tapering downwards 4 cornered with 
membranous angles, but shallower than in the germens of 
the ray; pappus very like that in the ray. Receptacle green, 
naked, raised, conical. 
A greenhouse plant of easy culture and propagation. 
