leaves oblong or oval, squarrose-recurved, acute-mucronate, subpungent, one-nerved, glabrous, punctate; heads corymbose, cylindrical, shortly pedicelled; inv. scales closely-imbricate, flat, oblong, the innermost spreading, obtuse; paleæ conduplicate, nerved, mucronate; pappus very short, crown-like, subdentate. A foot or more high, robust, woody, corymbosely branched. Branches closely leafy, all the leaves recurved or squarrose, very rigid, glabrous. Heads several in corymbs, on pedicels as long as themselves or shorter. Whatever R. recurva, Less. may be, the plant distributed by Drege under that name is certainly not different from this species.