stems decumbent, glabrous or sometimes pilose with a few scattered hairs; leaves 2–4 in. long, pinnately or bipinnately divided in the upper half, sometimes slightly sheathing at the base, glabrous or rarely thinly pilose; segments terete and bluntly or subacutely mucronate; heads very numerous, paniculate or corymbose on a long and rather stout common terminal peduncle, usually much exserted from the leaves; peduncle up to 2 in. long, bearing lanceolate-linear acute bracts 3–5 lin. long; primary branches up to 3/4 in. long; ultimate peduncles 1–2 lin. long, pubescent, with a solitary bract at the base of each; floral bracts 3 1/2–5 1/2 lin. long, ovate or suborbicular with a long acute acumen, pubescent; flowers erect in bud; perianth-tube 1 3/4–2 1/4 lin. long, nearly glabrous, soon splitting to the base; segments 4 3/4–5 1/2 lin. long, hirsute or villous with adpressed hairs; limb 1 1/4 lin. long, narrowly oblong, subacute, villous outside; anthers 1 lin. long, oblong-linear; hypogynous scales 3/4 lin. long, linear or filiform; ovary 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, globose, shortly villous with club-shaped hairs in the lower and slender ones in the upper part; style 4 1/2–5 1/2 lin. long, grooved, glabrous; stigma 1 lin. long, cylindric, subacute, gradually passing into the style or sometimes with a faint kink at the junction. null
