a bush, 6 ft. high; branches minutely greyish woolly-tomentose, at length glabrescent; leaves loosely scattered, oblanceolate to cuneate-linear, obtuse, bluntly 3–7-toothed at the apex, 1 1/4–2 in. long, 2–4 1/2 lin. broad, glabrous excepting at the crisped-tomentose base; heads 2-nate, shortly peduncled, up to 3/4 in. long excluding the styles, 3/4 to almost 1 in. in diam., without a definite involucre of barren bracts; peduncle up to 4 lin. long, tomentose, bearing stout spreading tomentose bracts up to 2 lin. long and semicylindric from a broader base; receptacle convex, 2 lin. high, 3–3 1/2 lin. wide at the base; floral bracts ovate to obovate, abruptly acuminate, 2 1/2 lin. long, densely tomentose to the base of the acumen; adult flower-bud about 6–7 lin. long; perianth-tube 1–1 1/2 lin. long, glabrous; adaxial and lateral claws slender, flexuous, at length more or less free below, but united at the upper usually recurved end or the tips free or more frequently the four claws united in 2 pairs, those of each pair holding together near the upper end only, 3–3 1/2 lin. long, finely pubescent; limbs lanceolate-oblong, acute, 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long, hirsute; anthers sessile, ovate-lanceolate, 1 lin. long; hypogynous scales lanceolate-linear, 7 lin. long, hyaline; ovary oblong, 3/4 lin. long, whitish-pubescent; style 8 lin. long, filiform, very slightly stouter below, quadrangular above, glabrous; stigma clavate-cylindric, obtuse, grooved, 3/4 lin. long, set off from the style by an oblique slight thickening. null