1 1/2–3 ft. high; stems erect or ascending, suffruticose below, branched, terete, striatulate, pubescent or woolly-tomentose; leaves alternate, 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, 3/8– 5/8 in. wide on the main stem, smaller on the branches; elliptic or obovate or suborbicular, obtuse or acute, entire, pubescent above, more or less white-woolly (especially when young) beneath, very shortly or not mucronulate; nerves beneath scarcely conspicuous; petioles 2–4 lin. long; flowers white or greenish, in small dense axillary woolly heads or spikes 1/4– 1/2 in. long, often crowded and forming globose clusters, the upper spikes not running into leafless terminal panicles; bracteoles less than 1/2 lin. long, ovate, concave, apiculate, hyaline; perianth 3/4 lin. long, woolly; sepals subequal, oblong, the 2 outer very shortly and finely apiculate, all woolly; stamens united into a tube with interposed staminodes shorter than the filaments; ovary subglobose; style about 1/8 lin. long; stigmas 2, minute; seeds rather more than 1/4 lin. long, slightly broader than long, subreniform, black, smooth, shining. null
