A shrub up to about 2 1/2 ft. high. Younger branches very densely silky tomentose, at length glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, tapering towards the base, 4 in. long, 1 in. wide, densely dark yellowish silky when young, less densely so in age, coriaceous, opaque; nerves equally prominent on both surfaces, none truly marginal. Heads up to 3 in. in diam., solitary or as many as 8 near the ends of the branches; bracts numerous, densely and shortly white silky outside, glabrous and silvery inside (Baum), outer 2 lin. long, innermost lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, rounded at the apex, 1 1/2 in. long, 4 lin. wide; flowers honey-scented. Perianth 1 1/4 in. long, densely silky or villous with long dark yellow hairs. Style after flowering 1 1/2 in. long.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea by the Longa River near Minnesera, 4000 ft., Baum, 653!
