branchlets puberulous or pubescent; leaves 4-nate, ascending, laxly imbricate or shorter than the internodes, straight, 1–3 1/2 lin. long with the petiole, linear, obtuse, thinly pilose or pubescent with soft hairs, becoming scabrous; heads globose, terminal and on short lateral branchlets, 4–16-flowered; pedicels 1/4 lin. long, bracteate at the apex; bracts adpressed to the calyx, very unequal, the middle one leaf-like, 2/3–1 lin. long, 2–4 times as long as the lateral pair, all villous with long white hairs; calyx 3/4–1 lin. long, divided nearly to the base, villous with long white hairs; lobes 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, 1/5 lin. broad at the base, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute; corolla 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long, tubular, 4-angled, glabrous; lobes minute, deltoid, obtuse, connivent-erect; stamens much exserted; filaments 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long, glabrous; anthers 1 lin. long, linear, spurless, smooth; ovary oblong, obtuse, 2-celled; style 1/4 in. long; stigma simple. null
