shrubby, much-branched, subdichotomous; branches and twigs cobwebbed, becoming nude; leaves opposite or scattered, sessile, linear or spathulate, channelled, obtuse or subacute, more or less villoso-tomentose or woolly, at length nearly nude; heads ovate, terminal, and in the forks sessile, subtended by several closely-applied leaves; inv. scales close-lying, very obtuse, the inner spreading; achenes short, furrowed; pappus crown-like, toothed. A rigid, much-branched, scrubby bush, a foot or more high; twigs flexuous. Leaves 1/2– 3/4 inch long, 1/2–1 line wide. Heads 4 lines long; inv. sc. very rigid. Pappus minutely denticulate. A specimen (in Hb. Sond.) of “ Polychætia relhanioides ,” Less. marked by Lessing himself, has the coroniform pappus and all other characters of N. humilis! Lessing has therefore either confounded two plants together, or, more probably, erroneously given two names and characters to the same plant.