branches pubescent; leaves a little spreading, lanceolate, channelled above, keeled beneath, at the top triquetrous, ustulate, glabrous; heads of flowers aggregated, forming a dense, ovate, or globose spike; exterior scales of involucre foliaceous, interior spreading, coloured, twice as long as the flowers; calyx-segments subglabrous; petals at top hairy. Habit of a Phylica or of Stilbe Pinastra, much more robust than the preceding. Branches subverticillate. Leaves 6–8 lines long, 1 line wide. Petiole adpressed, 1 line long. Spike 1/2–1 inch long, or twice as long and branched at the base. Heads few-flowered. Exterior scales ciliate at margin, interior yellowish or whitish, channelled, with a black mucro, at the wider base ciliate. Bracteolæ 2, setaceous, hairy, as long as the flowers. Calyx-segments shorter than the oblong, obtuse petals. Stamens equalling the calyx. Style 1. Fruit dicoccous.
