a bush, 3–5 ft. high; branches spreading, minutely tomentose, often with scattered long hairs or villous-hirsute, at length glabrescent; leaves scattered, uppermost loosely surrounding the flower-heads, not much closer than the lower, oblong-oblanceolate, oblanceolate, rarely sublinear, truncate or subobtuse, 3–7-toothed at the apex, with usually short and broad teeth ending in callous tips, rarely entire, long cuneate at the base, 1 3/4–3 1/2 in. long, 1/4 to over 3/4 in. broad, very stoutly coriaceous, indistinctly nerved, more or less rusty-pubescent to tomentose when young, soon glabrescent, excepting sometimes the base and lower margins; heads solitary or geminate, 1 1/2–2 in. long excluding the styles, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. wide, golden-yellow or tinged with red or almost red, peduncled, without a definite involucre of barren bracts; peduncle 1/2–1 in. long, finely tomentose, bearing loosely imbricate, more or less spreading, ovate, acuminate, shortly tomentose bracts; receptacle cylindrical, 1–1 1/4 in. long; floral bracts ovate to obovate, acuminate or subacuminate, 3–3 1/2 lin. long, 1 1/2–2 3/4 lin. broad, densely tomentose; adult flower-bud about 1 1/6 to over 1 1/2 in. long; perianth-tube about 3–3 1/2 lin. long, glabrous below, densely and finely tomentose above; adaxial and lateral claws permanently connate into a concave or partly flattened-out sheath about 10 lin. long, excepting the upper part which is generally free for 1–1 1/2 lin. and variously bent or recurved, with (very rarely without) long scattered hairs along the finely fulvous-tomentose margins, glabrous on the back at the base, finely fulvous-tomentose above; abaxial claw coherent at the upper end with the sheath or at length free, finely fulvous-tomentose and hirsute all over; limbs lanceolate, acute, 2 lin. long, finely tomentose and hirsute; anthers subsessile, oblong, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; hypogynous scales linear or cylindric, 3/4–1 lin. long; ovary oblong, 1/2 lin. long, densely pubescent below; style 1 1/3–1 1/2 in. long, stout, quadrangular above with faint secondary ridges between the primary, glabrous; stigma conical or almost oblong, up to 1 lin. long, 8-grooved; fruit ellipsoid-globose, whitish, 2 lin. long, sparingly and minutely puberulous. null
