a small undershrub, 1/2 ft. high; branches slender, minutely tomentose upwards with intermixed spreading hairs, glabrescent below; leaves scattered, uppermost loosely surrounding the flower-heads, oblong-oblanceolate, rounded at the apex with 3–2 small callously pointed teeth or the smaller quite entire and acute, long-cuneate towards the base, often narrowed into a slender short petiole, 2–2 1/4 in. long, 1/3– 2/3 in. broad, thinly coriaceous, prominently nerved, in the adult state almost glabrous with traces of a fine tomentum and some very fine long hairs; heads solitary, shortly peduncled, without a definite involucre of barren bracts, about 1 1/4 in. long and wide; peduncle 1/4 in. long, finely tomentose, bearing loosely imbricate, more or less spreading, caudate-acuminate bracts, shortly tomentose below and hirsute on the tails; receptacle cylindrical, 1/2– 2/3 in. long; floral bracts ovate, caudate or acuminate up to 6 lin. long (including the sometimes 4 lin.-long tails), densely tomentose, hirsute on the tails; adult flower-bud about 1 in. long; perianth, stamens and pistil as in L. attenuatum, but smaller in all parts; anthers subsessile, under 1 lin. long; style up to over 1 1/2 in. long; stigma oblong, slightly wider at the base 3/4–1 lin. long. null
