an erect shrub, 4–5 ft. high; branches minutely, but densely, greyish-woolly-tomentose with or without long spreading hairs; leaves moderately crowded up to the flower-heads, spreading or obliquely erect, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, entire or 2–5-toothed at the apex, somewhat narrowed at the base, 1 1/4–2 1/4 in. long, 3–6 lin. broad, veinless or obscurely veined, greyish- or whitish-tomentose; heads solitary or in clusters of 2–4 at the end of the branches, very shortly peduncled among the top-leaves, about 3/4 to almost 1 in. long excluding the styles, 1 in. or more in diam., with a definite involucre of barren bracts; peduncle turbinate, up to 4 lin. long and wide (at the upper end), densely covered with ovate acuminate densely tomentose upward-increasing bracts; receptacle flat, over 4 lin. across; involucral bracts like the upper bracts of the peduncle, up to 4 lin. long; floral bracts ovate to lanceolate, clawed downwards, acuminate, densely tomentose excepting on the acumen, up to 6 lin. long; adult flower-bud 7–9 lin. long; perianth-tube 2–3 lin. long, slender, glabrous; abaxial and lateral claws united into a sheath flattened out and recurved or revolute in the upper part, with the tips at length free, 4–5 lin. long, glabrous apart from the pubescent margins; abaxial claw soon free, pubescent all over; limbs oblong, acute, 1–1 1/2 lin. long, finely tomentose, deflexed or recurved on the claws; anthers sessile, linear-oblong, 3/4 lin. long, apiculate; hypogynous scales subulate, hyaline, 2/3 lin. long; ovary oblong, whitish-pubescent, contracted into a short glabrous beak, 1 1/2 lin. long; style straight or almost so, 6–8 lin. long, filiform, tapering from a somewhat stouter base, quadrangular upwards, glabrous; stigma oblong-cylindric, obtuse, grooved; fruit ellipsoid, 4 lin. long, almost glabrous, shining. null
