branches straight, terete, rather sparingly pubescent; young branchlets clustered, pubescent; leaves ericoid or acicular, those of the male smaller than those of the female, the former 3–5 lin. long, the latter 1/2– 3/4 in. long, all acute or subacute and glabrous except those at the apices of barren branchlets which are pilose with long weak spreading hairs; male inflorescences terminal on short lateral branchlets, often subcorymbosely arranged, subglobose, 4–5 lin. in diam.; bracts 1/2 lin. long, ovate, subacute, long-ciliate; perianth-tube 3/4 lin. long, cylindric, pilose above; segments 1 lin. long, spathulate-linear, pilose in the lower part; limb 1/3 lin. long, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, glabrous; anthers 1/3 lin. long, oblong; style 1 1/2 lin. long, filiform, glabrous; stigma 1/4 lin. long, clavate; hypogynous scales 1/2 lin. long, filiform; female inflorescences arranged similarly to the males, surrounded by a few leaves, 5–7 lin. in diam.; bracts 3 1/2 lin. long, obovate, ligulate in the upper half, obtuse, densely pilose outside, glabrescent towards the tips; perianth-tube 1 3/4 lin. long, split and glabrous below, villous above; segments 1 lin. long, linear, pilose or villous; limb 1/2 lin. long, oblong, obtuse or subacute, glabrous; staminodes 1/4 lin. long, linear; style 1 3/4 lin. long, filiform, bent below and obliquely inserted on the ovary; stigma 1/4 lin. long; ovary 2 lin. long, oblong, hirsute; hypogynous scales 3/4 lin. long, linear; fruiting heads turbinate, about 3/4 in. long and 1/3– 1/2 in. in diam.; fruits obovoid, shortly pointed, 2 1/4 lin. long, 1 1/3 lin. broad, not winged, pilose near the base. null