stout, rigid, much branched, rough to the touch, 2–3 ft. high; branches spreading or subdivaricate, roughly hispid with spreading simple or more or less compound hairs; leaves 4-nate, mostly spreading, linear to linear-lanceolate, sulcate to open-backed, ciliate with rough simple or forked or subplumose hairs, the under surface paler or livid and subglabrous, 2–2 1/2 lin. long; flowers subcorolline or subcalycine; heads mostly 4-flowered, cernuous, semiglobose, about 4 1/2 lin. in diam.; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, coloured, densely ciliate with long soft plumose hairs, about equal in length to the sepals; sepals like the bracts, but narrow-linear or subulate, 2 1/2–3 lin. long; corolla narrow-urceolate, puberulous, white or pale rose, 2–2 1/2 lin. long; segments spreading, short; filaments slender, 1 1/2–2 times longer than the anthers; anthers included, cuneate or cuneate-oblong, subacute, glabrous, from a little under to a little over 1/2 lin. long; cells deeply parted, crested; pore about 3/5 the length of the cell; crests varying from narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate or more usually suborbicular, incised, with one longer terminal subulate lobe, the whole 2/3– 3/4 the length of the cell; style included, short, straight; stigma capitellate, small; ovary turbinate, truncate, hirsute. null
