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 29. D. seneciifolia, ''R.Br. Prot. Nov.'' 38. A shrub of 2 or 3 ft., with stout erect tomentose stems, sometimes nearly simple. Leaves crowded, 2 to 4 in. long, deeply pinnatifid with rather distant linear or lanceolate pungent-pointed lobes 1 to 2 or rarely 3 lines long, the margins revolute, white underneath. Flower-heads small, narrow, sessile in the axils and buried in the numerous floral leaves. Involucral bracts, many of them leafy, the inner ones linear-subulate, with plumose-villous points, about ½ in. long. Perianth about 5 lines long, woolly-villous above the glabrous base, the limb glabrous or sprinkled with few silky hairs. Style scarcely exceeding the perianth, the stigmatic end not thickened and smooth. Capsule ovate, scarcely ¼ in. long.—Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 476; D. cryptocephala, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 596, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 479; Planch. Hort. Donat. t. 2.

30. D. vestita, ''Kipp. in Hook. Kew Journ.'' vii. 121. Stems in our specimens erect from a very thick woody trunk, ½ to 1½ ft. high, very rigid, hoary-tomentose or almost woolly. Leaves linear or linear-cuneate, 3 to 5 in. long, very rigid, bordered by distant teeth or lobes rarely reaching halfway to the midrib, all divaricate acute or pungent-pointed, 1 to 1½ lines long, the entire centre or rhachis 1½ to 3 lines broad, transversely reticulate underneath. Flower-heads axillary and terminal, closely surrounded by floral leaves. Involucre ovoid-oblong, softly villous, 1¼ to 1½ in. long; bracts numerous, narrow linear-lanceolate or linear, acuminate, articular above the base. Perianth above 1 in. long, woolly-villous above the glabrous base, the limb glabrous, 3 lines long. Style about as long as the perianth, the long stigmatic end scarcely distinguishable. Capsule oblique, above ½ in. long.—Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 477.

31. D. cirsioides, ''Meissn. in DC. Prod.'' xiv. 476. Branches stout, tomentose and villous. Leaves crowded, 2 to 3 in. long, deeply pinnatifid, but not quite to the midrib; the lobes lanceolate, ¼ to nearly ½ in. long, very rigid and pungent-pointed, the margins slightly recurved, hoary or whitish underneath. Flower-heads axillary, enclosed in numerous floral leaves. Involucre ovoid, nearly 1 in. long, villous, the bracts numerous, linear-lanceolate or linear, rigid, appressed. Perianths (only seen very few in a withered state) above 1 in. long, slender, villous above the glabrous base, the limb very narrow, 3 lines long. Styles all fallen from our specimens, the stigmatic end according to Meissner slender.

32. D. Hewardiana, ''Meissn. in DC. Prod.'' xiv. 477. Branches tomentose or nearly glabrous. Leaves from 3 or 4 in. to nearly 1 ft.