decumbent; branches villous; leaves 10–14 lin. long, 1/2– 3/4 lin. broad, needle-shaped, acute, mucronate, channelled on the upper face, convex below, minutely punctate, glabrous or scantily pilose; heads sessile, subglobose and obtuse in bud, when expanded 2 in. long, about 2 in. in diam.; involucral bracts 9–10-seriate, glabrous; outer ovate, produced into long foliaceous appendages, resembling leaves, ciliolate; inner oblong, eciliolate, slightly convex on the back, exceeding the flowers; perianth-sheath 7 lin. long, dilated, setulose-ciliate along the margin and densely rufously hairy within, otherwise glabrous, dilated, 3-keeled and 7-nerved below; lip 3 lin. long, glabrous, or sometimes with a few scattered bristles; stamens all fertile; filaments 1/6 lin. long, swollen, channelled; anthers linear, 1 1/2 lin. long; apical glands 1/6 lin. long, ovate, acute, swollen on the inner face; ovary obovate-oblong, covered with a tuft of long fulvous hairs; style 8–9 lin. long, obliquely widened and compressed above the ovary, then subulate, falcate, glabrous; stigma 1 1/2 lin. long, grooved, obtuse, passing with an obscure bend into the style. null
