branches minutely greyish-woolly-tomentose; leaves rather crowded at the base of the long flowering branches, more distant and exposing the stem above, oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, 3- (rarely 2-) toothed or entire, 3/4–1 1/2 in. long, 2 1/2–4 1/2 lin. wide, minutely but densely greyish-tomentose, obscurely veined; heads solitary or if paired only one fully developed at a time, peduncled, far exserted from the uppermost leaves, 1 3/4–2 1/2 in. long and about as wide, without a definite involucre of barren bracts; peduncle 1–2 in. long, stout, densely greyish-villous with ovate acuminate greyish-villous or tomentose bracts; receptacle oblong-cylindric, up to 1 in. long, 2 lin. wide; floral bracts ovate, or (the inner) obovate-cuneate, gradually and long or (the inner) abruptly acuminate, up to 5 lin. long, tomentose above, densely villous towards the base or the inner very densely hirsute-tomentose up to the acumen; adult flower-bud up to almost 2 in. long; flowers reflexed; perianth-tube curved, gibbous, 4–5 lin. long, finely villous above, glabrous at the contracted base, adaxial and lateral claws permanently united into a flattened-out sheath revolute in the upper part, softly and spreadingly villous, over 1 in. long; abaxial claw very slender, long adhering by the upper end to the sheath, softly and spreadingly villous; limbs lanceolate-oblong, acute, up to 3 lin. long, usually inflexed on the revolute end of the claw-sheath; anthers sessile, linear-lanceolate, long-apiculate, over 2 lin. long; hypogynous scales subulate, 1 lin. long; ovary oblong, 1 lin. long, finely greyish-pubescent; style up to more than 3 in. long, deflexed or curved upwards, slightly tapering and quadrangular upwards; stigma subulate, not wider than the style and set off from it by a minute bend, 3 lin. long. null
