shrubby, the branches, infl., and under sides of leaves tomentose; branches flexuous, round, striate, sprinkled with glands; leaves on longish petioles, slightly cuneate at base, broadly ovate or oblong, obtuse, subentire, undulate, scabrous above; panicle terminal, leafy, compound, its branches widely spreading, loosely corymbose; inv. scales broadly ovate, mucronulate, round-backed, glabrous, ciliolate; heads 15–20-flowered; pappus fulvous. A large, half-climbing shrub, 10–12 ft. high. Lower leaves not seen; upper on uncial petioles, 2–3 in. long, 1 1/2–2 in. wide, not much attenuated at base, irregular in outline, but not toothed. Outer pappus of few and narrow scales. Achenes 10-rib-striate, the striæ glabrous, with gland-downy interspaces. Corolla pilose.
