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 nerves: petioles four to five inches long, rounded, clothed with rusty down. The young leaves are covered all over with a rich velvety, red tomentum. Head of flowers terminal, moderately large, handsome, surrounded at the base by an involucre of many imbricated, oblongo-ovate leaves or bracteas : thickly clothed with rusty-coloured down. Small, subulate scales are mixed with the flowers. Perianth tubular, cut nearly half-way down into four, narrow-linear, dull orange-coloured, erect laciniæ, hairy without, and bearded at the extremity. Within each of these laciniæ, lodged in a groove, is a linear anther. Germen linear- oblong. Style filiform. Stigma clavate.