stem shrubby, robust, much-branched, branches virgate, thinly canous; leaves sessile, broad-based, linear or oblong, or lanceolate, one-nerved, on both sides canous-tomentose, often recurvo-mucronate, and concave; heads very numerous, in densely much-branched, flat-topped cymes, subsessile, 5-fl., homogamous, cylindrical; inv. scales glossy, semi-pellucid, imbricate in many rows, appressed, oblong, obtuse, pale-lemon coloured. A small shrub, 1–2 feet high; branches 10–12 inches long. Leaves very variable in length and breadth; commonly 3/4–1 inch long, 1–2 lines wide; in β. 1–1 1/4 inch long, 1/2 line wide; in γ. sometimes 1 inch long, 4–6 lines wide! Heads constantly 5-fl. and pale-lemon colour. Drege's plant from Sneeuweberg, referred by DC. to var. γ., is (in some Herbaria at least) H. subglomeratum, Less.
