a bushy shrub, 7–8 ft. high; branches shortly and thinly villous; leaves 1/2–1 in. long, 1–2 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, with a broad very obtuse callus at the apex, narrowed to the base, entire or rarely bifid, rigidly coriaceous, pilose; heads sessile, 4–6 lin. long, about 5 lin. in diam.; involucral bracts up to 4 lin. long, 3/4–1 1/4 lin. broad, the outer oblong, obtuse, pubescent, ciliate; the intermediate ones ovate-lanceolate, the innermost linear, villous; perianth-segments connate at the base, soon becoming quite free, 3 lin. long, linear, attenuated to the base, villous with long hairs; limb 3/4 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, villous; anthers sessile, 1/2 lin. long, oblong; apical glands 1/8 lin. long, ovoid, obtuse; ovary 1/2 lin. long, very minutely pubescent; style 3 1/2 lin. long, terete, filiform, gradually tapering to the apex, very minutely pubescent at the base, otherwise glabrous; stigma 1/6 lin. long, cylindric, obtuse. null
