stem shrubby at base, branches virgate, closely set with leaves throughout, and, as well as the leaves, densely woolly; leaves sessile one-nerved, the lower obovato-spathulate, obtuse, mucronulate, the upper passing from linear-oblong to lance-linear, acute or acuminate, with subrecurved margins; cymes loosely panicled, flat-topped, much branched; heads 2–4 at the ends of the pedicels, subsessile, cylindrical, 4–5-fl., (2–3 herm., 2 fem.); invol. glabrous and glossy, its scales appressed, imbricate in many rows, acute, pellucid, straw-colour, the outer short, inner oblongo-lanceolate; recept. narrow, short-toothed. Stems 2–3-ft. high. Branches 1–1 1/2-f. long. All parts thickly woolly, greyish. Lower leaves 3/4–1 inch long, 2–3 lines wide at lip; upper 1/2– 3/4 inch long, the younger erect, old spreading or reflexed. Panicle corymbose, 2–4 inches across. Inv. with a glassy lustre.
