about 6 in. high; branchlets erect or divergent and straggling, softly pubescent with spreading hairs; leaves 4-nate, suberect to spreading, 1–2 lin. long with the petiole, imbricate or shorter than the internodes, linear, obtuse, straight, about equally convex on both sides, minutely rugulose or tuberculate and pubescent with short spreading hairs, apparently viscid; flowers in globose terminal heads about 3 lin. in diam., shortly pedicellate; bract solitary at the top of the pedicel, adpressed to and about as long as the calyx, leaf-like, pubescent; calyx cup-shaped, lobed to 2/3 (rarely only to half) of the way down, pubescent all over; lobes erect, oblong or deltoid-oblong, obtuse, ciliate with sessile glands and having a whitish pulverulent patch on the back between the slightly raised margins; corolla 1–1 1/4 lin. long, tubular, slightly narrowing downwards, 4-angled, slightly oblique, glabrous; lobes erect, broader than long, rounded; anthers shortly exserted, basifixed, about as long as broad, oblong or cuneate-subquadrate, bifid to half-way, spurless, smooth; ovary 2–3-celled, glabrous; style 1 lin. long, stigma simple. null