branches terete, purple when dry, glabrous; young branchlets of the male rather slender, of the female a little stouter; lower leaves 1 1/4–1 3/4 in. long, 3–7 lin. broad, oblanceolate or oblanceolate-elliptic, obtuse or subacute, coriaceous, glaucous, with hairy tips and margins especially when young, otherwise glabrous; leaves surrounding the female inflorescence about 2 1/2 in. long; male inflorescences scarcely 1/2 in. in diam., subglobose, surrounded by about 2 series of bracts, the latter 2–3 lin. long, ovate, very long-acuminate, acute, glabrous; floral bracts 1 1/4 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, villous; perianth-tube 1/2 lin. long, glabrous; segments 2 1/2 lin. long, glabrous; limb 3/4 lin. long, elliptic, subobtuse, glabrous; anthers 1/2 lin. long, linear; style 2 3/4 lin. long, terete, very slightly narrowing above, glabrous; stigma 2/3 lin. long, clavate; hypogynous scales 3/4 lin. long, linear; young female head 6 lin. long, subglobose; bracts 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, ovate or semicircular, obtuse or rounded at the apex, velvety-tomentose; perianth-segments 1 3/4 lin. long, slightly imbricate, spathulate-linear, glabrous; limb 1/3 lin. long, oblong, subacute, incurved at the apex; staminodes 1/6 lin. long, oblong; hypogynous scales 1/2 lin. long, linear; style 1 1/2 lin. long, swollen and semiterete above, becoming compressed and linear below, glabrous; stigma oblique; ovary 1/4 lin. long, ellipsoid, glabrous. null
