branches pilose; leaves all alike, 1 1/2–2 in. long, bipinnately divided in the upper half, pubescent or puberulous when young, soon becoming glabrous, ultimate segments slender, terete, obtuse, up to 1/2 in. long; heads 4-flowered, spicate; spikes terminal and solitary or sometimes clustered and pedunculate, up to 2 1/2 in. long, about 1/2 in. in diam., very densely flowered; flowering axis tomentose; bract subtending each partial head about 4 lin. long, subulate-linear, very acute, densely villous outside; floral bracts about 2 1/2 lin. long and 1 1/4 lin. broad, ovate, long and gradually acutely acuminate, almost membranous, very densely long-villous outside; flowers at the time of opening 4 lin. long or less; perianth-tube shortly pubescent, or nearly glabrous; segments 3 1/2 lin. long; claws tomentellous or shortly pubescent, becoming spirally coiled in the open flower; limb 1 lin. long, lanceolate, subobtuse, villous outside; anthers sessile; hypogynous scales linear; ovary surrounded by a ring of hairs; style 3 1/2–4 lin. long, thinly pubescent in the lower half; stigma ellipsoid, subobtuse, gradually passing into the style, about 1/3 lin. long. null
