stem suffruticose at base, very slender, diffusely-branched, branches long, suberect, tomentose; leaves half-clasping, subdecurrent, lanceolate, one-nerved, nigro-mucronate, with subrevolute margins, both sides albo-tomentose, the younger erect, the old spreading or reflexed, at length denuded above; heads 12–20, in dense subglobose, nearly sessile cymes, short-pedicelled, oblong, about 12-fl.; inv. scales obtuse, glossy, close-pressed, the outer fulvous, inner golden-yellow. A slender, apparently trailing, closely-leafy, thinly-woolly plant; young parts whitish. Leaves 1/2 inch long, 1 line wide. Heads 1 1/2 line long, like those of H. cymosum. DC. says the heads are “25-fl.;” not in the Camdeboo specimens at least.
