branches glabrous; leaves 2 1/2–3 in. long, about 1/3 lin. wide, needle-shaped, acute, pungent, channelled and prominently costate on the upper face, glabrous; head sessile, 1 1/2–1 3/4 in. long, about 2 1/2 in. in diam., cernuous; involucral bracts 7-seriate, glabrous; outer ovate, acuminate, obtuse or acute, the lowest produced into long foliaceous appendages resembling the leaves; inner oblong, slightly concave, exceeding the flowers; perianth-sheath 8 lin. long, dilated, 3-keeled and 7-nerved below, scarious, rufously setulose within in the upper part, otherwise glabrous; lip 2 2/3 lin. long, 3-toothed, 3-keeled, setose below; teeth subequal, 1/4 lin. long; stamens all fertile; filaments 1/4 lin. long, dilated, concave; anthers oblong-linear, 1 2/3 lin. long; apical glands 1/6 lin. long, ovate, subacute, somewhat swollen on the inner face; ovary 1 lin. long, obovate-oblong, covered with long reddish-yellow hairs; hypogynous scales 1/2 lin. long, oval-oblong; style up to 11 lin. long, widened and much compressed from the base upwards for 3 lin., then much constricted and strongly bent and subulate, the slender portion obliquely arching inwards, glabrous; stigma 1 2/3 lin. long, obtuse. null
