a depressed shrub, 6 ft. high; branches glabrous; leaves 10–14 lin. long, 3 1/2–6 lin. broad, narrowly obovate-cuneate or oblanceolate, subacute, mucronate, indistinctly veined, minutely rugulose, glaucous or (in the dry state) yellowish, glabrous; heads subsessile, 2 1/2 in. long, about 3 in. in diam., pendulous; receptacle 12 lin. high, conical; involucral bracts 9–10-seriate, glabrous; outer ovate, subacute, minutely ciliate; inner oblong or spathulate-oblong, exceeding the flowers; perianth-sheath 11 lin. long, dilated, 3-keeled and 6–7-nerved below, sparingly setose outside to the upper part, otherwise glabrous; lip up to 4 lin. long, 3-toothed and slightly recurved, with a few scattered setose hairs; lateral teeth 2/3 lin. long; median tooth 1/2 lin. long; stamens all fertile; filaments 1/4 lin. long, channelled; anthers linear, 2 1/4 lin. long; apical glands 1/6 lin. long, ovate, acute; hypogynous scales 2/3 lin. long, oblong, obtuse; ovary covered with long spreading yellow-brown hairs; style 1 1/4 in. long, falcate, compressed, tapering towards both ends, glabrous; stigma 2 1/2 lin. long, obtuse, grooved, imperceptibly passing into the style. null
