branches decumbent, rusty-villous; leaves 1/2–1 in. long, 3–5 lin. broad, imbricate, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, shortly pointed and entire at the apex, a little narrowed to the base, with no visible nerves, coriaceous, adpressed villous, with more or less rust-coloured hairs on both surfaces; heads longer than the leaves, including the styles about 1 1/3 in. long, 3-flowered, crowded at the ends of the branches; outer involucral bracts about 4 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, thinly villous especially towards the margin; intermediate about 3/4 in. long and 1/4 in. broad, oblong-oblanceolate, acute, thinly adpressed-villous outside, glabrous and striate within, the innermost few, almost linear and more densely villous; receptacle finely and long-setose; perianth-tube about 1 lin. long; segments 3/4 in. long, linear-filiform, rather densely setose with long ascending hairs; limb 1 1/2 lin. long, narrowly lanceolate, subacute, densely setose outside; filaments thick, 1/3 lin. long; anthers 2/3 lin. long; apical gland suborbicular, about 1/5 lin. in diam.; hypogynous scales and ovary not seen; style exserted, 1 1/3 in. long, sulcate, glabrous; stigma scarcely 1 lin. long, rounded at the apex. null
