branches rufo-villous; leaves densely tufted, linear, 3-cornered, somewhat fleshy, mucronate-acute, incurved, villoso-ciliate, or glabrescent; flowers densely capitate; calyx widely campanulate, thinly villous, the lobes broadly ovate, acute, somewhat longer than the tube; bracts and bracteoles ovato-lanceolate, villous; vexillum glabrous, equalling the rostrate carina, which is villous on its upper edge; ovary 2-ovuled.Robust 2–3 feet high, not very densely branched; the branches a foot or more in length, erect, simple or ramulose, clothed, as well as the margins of the leaves, with long soft hairs, under which is a reddish tomentum. Leaves pale, 4–5 lines long, more slender than in the preceding. Flowers 1/2 inch long, in many-flowered heads, yellow or buff. Carina strongly arched and taper-pointed, woolly at the upper edge near the base. Ovary ciliate on the ventral suture, otherwise glabrous. null
