branchlets pubescent or densely puberulous intermingled with longer hairs; leaves 4-nate, closely placed or loosely imbricate, incurved-erect, 1 1/3–2 1/3 lin. long, linear, subobtuse, villous on the back with long hairs which often fall away, rugose, glabrous on the upper side; heads globose, terminating short lateral branches, 6–9-flowered; pedicels 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, bracteate at the apex, pilose; bracts adpressed to the calyx, very unequal, the middle one 1–1 1/2 lin. long, equalling or exceeding the calyx, leaf-like, incurved, the lateral pair 1/8– 1/3 lin. long, linear, all villous; calyx lobed to more than 3/4 of the way down; lobes 1/2 lin. long, 1/3 lin. broad, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, villous with long simple hairs on the back; corolla 1 1/3–1 3/4 lin. long, tubular, 4-angled, faintly narrowed at the middle, glabrous; lobes very small, rounded or deltoid-ovate, obtuse, connivent-erect; filaments 1 2/3–2 lin. long, glabrous; anthers much exserted, 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, linear or oblong-linear, spurless, smooth, or minutely scabrous on the margins; ovary subquadrate, obtuse, 3–4-angled and -celled, glabrous; style 2 1/4 lin. long, glabrous; stigma simple. null
