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348 or linear-oblong, thin and hyaline. Achene silky. Pappus-hairs plumose, as long as the florets.—''A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 245; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 446; Raoul, Choix, 45; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 316. C. fimbriata, D.C. Prodr. vi. 152; ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 131; Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 144. C. Richea, ''Cass. in Dict. Sci. Nat.'' xi. 353; ''Benth. Fl. Austral.'' iii. 579. Staehelina fimbriata, ''Forst. ex D.C. Prodr.'' vi. 153.

Glandular-pubescent herbs with opposite leaves. Heads rather small, in leafy panicles, heterogamous, subradiate. Involucre campanulate or hemispherical; bracts few, in about 2 rows, herbaceous, glandular-hispid; the outer spathulate, spreading; inner erect, concave, enclosing the ray-florets. Receptacle small, paleaceous; scales membranous, concave, often enclosing the florets. Ray-florets in 1 series, female, tube short, limb 2–3-fid. Disc-florets hermaphrodite, tubular with a campanulate 5-toothed mouth. Anthers entire at the base. Style-branches of the hermaphrodite florets short, flattened, usually obtuse. Achenes obovoid-oblong, not compressed, usually curved. Pappus wanting.

1. S. orientalis, ''Linn. Sp. Plant.'' 900.—A sparingly branched erect annual 1–3 ft. high, with spreading opposite lower branches, more or less pubescent in all its parts. Leaves 1–4 in. long, triangular-ovate, the upper narrower and oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, cuneate at the base, petiolate, membranous, irregularly toothed or lobed or almost entire. Heads ¼–⅓ in. diam., yellow; outer involucral bracts usually longer than the inner, covered with glandbearing hairs. Florets small, the rays very short. Outer achenes rough.—''Benth. Fl. Austral.'' iii. 535; Kirk, Students Fl. 317.