branchlets rather stout, whitish-tomentose; leaves 3-nate, closely imbricate, about 1 lin. long with the petiole, 1/3– 1/2 lin. broad, oblong to elliptic-ovate, obtuse, glabrous, at first ciliate with deciduous long white hairs; heads globose, 6–12-flowered; pedicels 1/2 lin. long, bracteate at the apex; bracts adpressed to the calyx, unequal, oblong-linear, obtuse, 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, the lateral pair 3/4 as long as the middle one, all villous with long white hairs; calyx 3/4 lin. long, lobed to 3/4 of the way down, villous with long white hairs; lobes 1/4 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse; corolla 2 lin. long, often slightly curved, tubular, 4-angled, glabrous; lobes very small, rounded, connivent-erect; filaments about as long as the corolla, glabrous; anthers wholly exserted, 1 lin. long, linear, spurless; ovary orbicular-oblong, obtusely pointed, glabrous, 2-celled; style 2 1/2 lin. long, much exserted, glabrous; stigma simple. null
