a bush about 3 ft. high; branches greyish tomentellous above, becoming glabrous; leaves 1 3/4–2 1/2 in. long, 1 1/4–1 3/4 lin. broad, linear, obtuse to subacute with a callous point attenuated at the base, margins recurved; youngest leaves finely villous at the base; head sessile, 1 in. long, about 1 in. in diam., globose; receptacle convex; involucral bracts 10–11-seriate; outer ovate, obtuse, glabrous or the lowest very finely pubescent, with membranous ciliate margins; inner oblong-spathulate, obtuse, brick-red, recurved above, glabrous or minutely pubescent, not equalling the styles; perianth-sheath 7 lin. long, 1/3 lin. broad above, dilated, 3-keeled and 3-nerved below, glabrous or hirsute at the apex; lip 2 lin. long, 3-toothed, rufously setulose, glabrescent on the back; teeth subequal, 1/6 lin. long, the middle one smaller; stamens all fertile, subsessile; anthers linear, 1 1/2 lin. long; apical glands 1/6 lin. long, ovate, obtuse, swollen on the inner face; ovary 1 lin. long, oblong-obovate in outline, covered with long brown hairs; hypogynous scales 1/2 lin. long, 1/6– 1/4 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse; style 10 lin. long, falcate, arching over the centre of the head, terete above, flattened and hollow below, glabrous; stigma 1 1/4 lin. long, linear, obtuse, grooved, passing into the style. null
