branches finely tomentellous, at length glabrous; leaves 3 1/4–4 1/4 in. long, 3/4–1 1/2 in. broad, strongly imbricate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, obtuse with a callous point, subcordate or rounded or slightly narrowed at the base, coriaceous, prominently veined, glabrous with the margins shortly villous or at length glabrous; head sessile, 4 in. long, about 2 1/2 in. in diam.; involucral bracts 8-seriate; outer ovate, obtuse, villous-pubescent or more or less glabrescent, with a dense fringe of woolly cilia; inner more or less flesh-colour to carmine with an oblong limb and linear claw, finely villous-tomentose, tips densely ciliate, exceeding the flowers; perianth-sheath 2 in. long, dilated, 5-nerved and 3-keeled below, finely tomentose, glabrous at the base; lip over 1 in. long, 3-awned; lateral awns 3–4 1/2 lin. long, filiform, flexuous, tawny to purplish-tomentose; median awn 1 lin. long, filiform; fertile stamens 3, subsessile; filaments 3/4 lin. long, flattened; anthers linear, 4 1/2 lin. long; apical gland almost 1 lin. long, lanceolate-oblong; barren stamen 4 1/2 lin. long, linear, eglandular; ovary 1 lin. long, oblong, densely covered with long light-golden hairs; style 2 in. long, finely grooved on the convex side, glabrous; stigma 2 1/2 lin. long, linear, obtuse, strongly kneed and bent at the junction with the style. null
