branches purplish, glabrous or very scantily pilose with weak hairs; leaves 3/4–1 in. long, pinnately divided in the upper half, glabrous or scantily pilose; ultimate segments 3–4 lin. long, slender, narrowly cylindric, acutely mucronate; heads terminal, solitary, subsessile, 1/2 in. long and in diam., many-flowered; peduncle 1–2 lin. long, glabrous, bearing subulate acuminate acute glabrous purple bracts about 2 lin. long; floral bracts 3 1/2–4 1/2 lin. long, ovate, long-acuminate, subacute, ribbed, minutely pubescent towards the margin; flowers curved in bud; perianth-tube 1 3/4 lin. long, glabrous below; segments 3 1/2 lin. long, spathulate-linear, hirsute with adpressed hairs; limb 1 lin. long, oblong, subobtuse, shortly hirsute; anthers sessile, 3/4 lin. long, oblong-linear; hypogynous scales 1 lin. long, filiform; ovary 1/2 lin. long, ellipsoid, long-villous; style 4 lin. long, with an ellipsoid swelling at the base, glabrous; stigma 3/4 lin. long, slightly clavate, obtuse. null
