a decumbent shrub; branches tomentellous; leaves 3/4–1 in. long, falcate, subterete, subacutely and gradually mucronate, very shortly adpressed-pilose when young, at length glabrous and slightly shining; involucres 3-flowered, and containing another smaller involucre with a rudimentary flower, arranged in dense sessile solitary terminal spikes, the latter about 3/4 in. long; subtending bracts about 2 lin. long, ovate, slightly acuminate, pilose, ciliate; involucre 2–3 lin. long, tripartite; segments lanceolate, pubescent; perianth-tube 1 lin. long, sparingly pubescent; segments about 4 lin. long; claws shortly villous, the adaxial one straight, the other three spirally coiled in the open flower; limb ovate, villous; anthers oblong; hypogynous scales linear-lanceolate; ovary pubescent; style about 5 lin. long, curved, glabrous; stigma 1/4 lin. long, subovoid, obtuse; fruits sessile, 2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, oblong-ellipsoid, subacute, pubescent. null
