a small shrub 1–3 ft. high; stem simple; branches pubescent or villous; leaves 1/2–1 in. long, 1 1/4–2 1/2 lin. broad, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse with an entire or trifid callous apex, a little narrowed to the base, coriaceous, sometimes subdistinctly 3–5-nerved, more or less thinly villous; heads sessile, 4–6 lin. long, 1/2– 3/4 in. in diam.; involucral bracts about 1/2 in. long, ovate or lanceolate, acutely acuminate, the outer adpressed-pilose outside, the intermediate more glabrescent and densely ciliate; innermost bracts linear, densely villous; perianth-segments nearly free, 4 lin. long, linear-filiform, villous with long hairs; limb 3/4 lin. long, narrowly lanceolate, acute, villous; anthers sessile, 1/2 lin. long, elliptic; apical gland 1/8 lin. long, ovate, subobtuse; ovary 2/3 lin. long, oblong, pubescent; style 4 3/4 lin. long, filiform, terete, gradually narrowed to the apex, pubescent at the base, persistent; stigma 1/4 lin. long, cylindric, subobtuse, furrowed; fruit 3 1/4 lin. long, ellipsoid, glabrous, reticulate. null
