shrubby, tufted, depressed, glabrous; leaves pinnati-partite, all the lobes tipped with a white, conico-subulate, cap-like mucro, the lower lobes very short, subulate, the upper longer, linear or 2–3-fid; pedunc. naked, elongate, outer inv. scales ovate, obtuse, dark-edged and slightly membrane-tipped; rays discoloured; paleæ obtuse. Root thick and woody. Stems numerous, 3–4 inches long, subsimple, forming a dense tuft. Leaves about uncial, the lobes below the middle reduced to teeth, the upper 3–4 lines long. In habit it is like the foregoing, but differs from that and the following by the remarkable, ivory-white tips to the leaf-lobes. These are, however, variable, and much less evident in the specimens from Kreilis country and Natal, which in other respects are very similar.
