much branched, branches softly hairy; leaves narrow-oblong or lanceolate-linear, rigid, acute, concave, obscurely one-nerved, appressedly silky on both surfaces, the older ones becoming sub-glabrous; pedicels densely silky, shorter than the broadly ovate, concave, mucronate, hairy bracts; calyx densely hairy, its lobes obliquely ovate, obtuse, of nearly equal length. 12–18 inches high, erect, corymbosely-branched; all the younger parts softly silky, with long, appressed hairs. Leaves about 3/4 inch long, 1–2 lines wide, between oblong and lanceolate, acute but scarcely pungent. Flowers 4–6, on very short, hairy pedicels, subcapitate. Calyx segments remarkably broad and blunt.
