branches glabrous; leaves 1–2 in. long, 1/2–1 lin. broad, linear-subulate, ending in a fine pungent mucro, glabrous, midrib prominent; head sessile, obovoid, 1 in. long, 3/4 in. wide; involucral bracts 5–6-seriate, glabrous, white, adpressed; outer ovate to ovate-anceolate, subacuminate; inner lanceolate, acutely acuminate, almost pungent, exceeding the flowers; perianth-sheath 4 lin. long, 3 1/2 lin. long, glabrous, gradually dilated, 3-keeled and 5-nerved below; lip 3 lin. long, 3-toothed, glabrous, crimson; teeth subequal, 1/2 lin. long, with a tuft of stiff white or fulvous hairs; stamens all fertile; filaments 1/4 lin. long, hardly flattened; anthers linear, 1 1/2 lin. long; apical glands 1/4 lin. long, oblong, obtuse; ovary 3/4 lin. long, obovate in outline, covered with long white hairs; style 5 lin. long, almost straight, slender, widened above the ovary, then gradually tapering; stigma 1 1/2 lin. long, filiform, obtuse, almost imperceptibly passing into the style. null
