a branched, erect shrub about 5 ft. high; branches erect, slightly rufous-tomentellous and pilose with long weak hairs when young, becoming at length puberulous and slightly glaucous; leaves 3–4 lin. long, pinnately or bipinnately divided from near the base, shortly tomentose when quite young, at length glabrous; segments terete, obtuse; heads solitary, terminal, sessile, 1/2–1 in. long, about 3/4 in. in diam.; involucral bracts about 5 lin. long, lanceolate, gradually acuminate, acute, nearly glabrous or tomentellous outside, long-ciliate; floral bracts 4 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, densely villous towards the apex; perianth-tube 1 1/4 lin. long, glabrous; segments 2 3/4 lin. long, spreadingly villous; limb 2/3 lin. long, lanceolate, obtuse, that of the posticous segment much more shortly villous than the others; anthers 1/2 lin. long; ovary 2 lin. long, pilose; style 3 lin. long, tapering upwards from a swollen base, pubescent in the middle 1/3 of its length; stigma 1/6 lin. long, ovoid or ellipsoid, obtuse. null
