suffruticose; stems ascending, subterete, woody below, brown when dried, shortly pubescent above with whitish turgid declining hairs, densely leafy at least below, simple, about 1 ft. long; leaves obovate, obtuse or rounded, wedge-shaped towards the not very narrow sessile base, thinly or firmly fleshy-coriaceous, glabrous or minutely glandular, cuneate-serrulate along the upper half, 1/4– 3/8 in. long, 1/8– 1/6 in. broad, erect-patent; flowers sessile, numerous, about 1/4 in. long, crowded in a terminal head; heads about 5/8 in. long and broad; bracts roundly obovate, oval, glumaceous, ciliolate, sessile, shining, concave at first, at length nearly flat, 1/6– 1/5 in. long; calyx-segments 1/6 in. long, minutely glandular-ciliolate about the apex; corolla 1/4– 1/3 in. long, glabrous; tube 1/5– 1/4 in. long; lobes 1/16– 1/10 in. long; filaments 1/16– 1/10 in. long besides the adhering parts; anthers 1/15– 1/10 in. long; pistil nearly 1/4 in. long, glabrous; ovary oval, obtuse, somewhat compressed, 1/15 in. long, 1/25 in. broad; style about 1/5 in. long. null
