an erect shrub 6–8 ft. high; branches long-pilose; leaves 1–2 1/4 in. long, 3/4–1 1/4 in. broad, slightly imbricate, obovate or oblanceolate-spathulate, with a very obtuse blackish apex, slightly narrowing at the base or rarely the upper leaves attenuated, distinctly 5–6-nerved, rigidly subcoriaceous, densely ciliate when young, otherwise glabrous or rarely scantily pilose; heads sessile, 2–2 1/2 in. long, many-flowered, 1–3 or rarely more at the extremity of a branch, drooping; involucral-bracts rose-red and petaloid, 4–5-seriate, 1 3/4–2 in. long, 4–12 lin. broad, spathulate-oblong, rounded at the apex, many-nerved, membranous, pilose, ciliate, the outermost densely shaggy-pilose; perianth-tube 3 lin. long, cylindric, pubescent; segments lemon-yellow, 1 1/4 in. long, linear, pilose; limb 4 lin. long, linear, scantily pilose; filaments swollen, fused with the perianth; anthers 3 1/2 lin. long, linear; apical gland 1/4 lin. long, ovate, obtuse; hypogynous scales 3/6 lin. long, linear, obtuse, brown; style 1 3/4 in. long, grooved, glabrous; stigma 3 1/2 lin. long, sulcate, obtuse; ovary 1 lin. long, globose; fruit 3 lin. long, oblong, smooth and shining. null
