erect; branches of medium thickness, not slender, nor diffuse, pilose; leaves 3-nate, spreading, the older distant, the younger imbricate, ovate or lanceolate, open-backed, margins recurved or revolute, rough and ciliate with tubercle-based hairs, upper surface somewhat concave, glabrous, shining, closely tomentose and pale below, from 2–4 lin. long, 1–2 lin. wide; flowers capitate; heads 6–10-flowered; pedicels stoutish, under 1 lin. long; bracts remote to subapproximate, small, glandular-pilose; sepals lanceolate or oblong, viscid, pale, very inconspicuous, 1/2– 2/3 lin. long; corolla urceolate, mouth contracted, glabrous, viscid, 1 3/4 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. wide, limb and generally also a small portion of the upper part of the tube recurved or revolute; segments about 1/6 as long as the tube, broad, shortly subacute; filaments broadish, slightly dilated below the anther; anthers subexserted, sublateral, basifixed at the dorsal side, or lateral and dorsifixed near the base, oblong, tapering somewhat to the apex, about 1/2 lin. long, muticous; pore over 1/2 as long as the cell; style exserted, at length decurved; stigma clavate-capitate; ovary loosely white-woolly. null
