an erect bush 5–7 ft. high; branches pubescent, rarely glabrous; leaves 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 1–3 lin. broad, linear or lanceolate-linear, acute to obtuse at the apex, narrowed to the base, adpressed-pubescent; male inflorescences 6 lin. long, terminal or axillary, clustered at the end of the branches; bracts 3 lin. long, spathulate-linear, glabrous below, villous and bearded above; perianth-tube 3 1/2 lin. long, cylindric, slightly widening above, pubescent; lobes 2 1/4 lin. long, spathulate-linear, glabrous; limb 1 3/4 lin. long, linear, subacuminate, acute; anthers 1 1/2 lin. long, linear, with a minute linear gland at the apex; style 4 lin. long, filiform; stigma 1/3 lin. long, narrow-cylindric; female inflorescence sessile, 1–1 3/4 in. long, terminal, usually solitary, rarely 3-nate; involucral bracts ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse or subobtuse, pubescent or glabrous when young, becoming tomentose outside with age, ciliate; perianth-tube 1 3/4 lin. long, villous with very long hairs; segments 10 lin. long, linear, channelled within, pilose with very long hairs outside; limb 1 3/4 lin. long, linear, subobtuse or subacute, glabrous; staminodes 3/4 lin. long, linear, with a minute linear gland at the apex; style 1 in. long, cylindric, furrowed above, becoming filiform below, glabrous; stigma lateral, 2 lin. long, linear, curved; hypogynous scales 1/4 lin. long, linear; ovary 1/3 lin. long, elliptic, covered with long hairs. null
