branches grey-tomentose or villous; leaves closely imbricate, 1 1/4–1 3/4 in. long, 8–15 lin. broad, obovate-elliptic or obovate, with a blunt glabrous 3-toothed callous apex, rounded at the base, coriaceous, indistinctly 5–6-nerved from near the base, densely adpressed-pubescent with whitish hairs; heads sessile, about 1 in. long, 10–12-flowered, solitary in the axils of the leaves at the ends of the branches; involucral bracts 5–6-seriate, linear-lanceolate to ovate, all acutely acuminate, about half as long as the flowers, coriaceous, slightly rugose, densely ciliate, otherwise nearly glabrous; receptacle long-setose; perianth-tube very short, glabrous; segments 9–12 lin. long, linear-filiform, densely pilose up to the limb; limb 1 1/2 lin. long, linear, obtuse or subacute, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs; anthers sessile, 1 1/2 lin. long; filaments oblong, swollen, channelled; apical gland 1/4 lin. long, lanceolate, acute; hypogynous scales 1 lin. long, linear; ovary 1/2 lin. long, pubescent; style 1 1/3–1 1/2 in. long, cylindric; stigma 1 1/2 lin. long, with an ovoid obtuse apex 1/3 lin. long, and with a distinct kink at the junction with the style. null
