stems erect; branches glabrous; leaves 3/4–1 3/4 in. long, pinnately or bipinnately divided in the upper half, glabrous; ultimate segments 4–6 lin. long, narrowly cylindric, acutely mucronate; heads 4–12, about 4 lin. long and in diam., few-flowered, corymbose on a common peduncle; peduncle about 3/4 in. long, bearing linear-lanceolate glabrous bracts about 2 1/2 lin. long which soon become strongly reflexed; ultimate peduncles 2–3 lin. long, glabrous, with a solitary bract at the base of each; floral bracts 1 1/2–3 lin. long, ovate, long-acuminate, acute, ribbed, glabrous or very minutely pubescent; flowers curved in bud; perianth-tube 3/4 lin. long, pubescent above, glabrous below; segments 2 1/2–3 lin. long, shortly adpressed-hirsute; limb 5/6–1 lin. long, oblong, subacute, adpressed-hirsute; anthers 3/4 lin. long; hypogynous scales 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, filiform; ovary 1/4– 1/2 lin. long, ellipsoid, covered with long white hairs; style 3–3 1/2 lin. long, swollen and articulated at the base, glabrous; stigma 2/3– 3/4 lin. long, cylindric, obtuse, furrowed; fruit 2 1/2 lin. long, oblong-ellipsoid, beaked, villous. null
