branches pilose, at length becoming glabrous; leaves 3 1/2–5 1/2 lin. long, erect and densely imbricate, lanceolate, subacutely apiculate, flat, distinctly nerved and scabrous on both surfaces, thinly ciliate when young, otherwise glabrous, those surrounding the heads coloured; heads 4-flowered, crowded in dense solitary or geminate more or less globose terminal racemes about 3/4 in. in diam.; bracts subtending the secondary peduncles 5 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, rough with short glandular hairs, ciliate; secondary peduncles about 1 1/2 lin. long, nearly glabrous; floral bracts 3 lin. long, about 1 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, glandular-puberulous, ciliate; perianth-tube about 1/2 lin. long, ellipsoid, glabrous; segments mauve, 3 1/2–4 lin. long; claws filiform, glabrous or minutely puberulous, not spirally twisted; limb 2/3 lin. long, ovate-elliptic, subobtuse, densely and villously bearded in the upper half, glabrous or slightly pubescent in the lower part; anthers nearly as long as the limb; hypogynous scales 2/3 lin. long, linear; ovary ovoid, pilose; style 4 1/2 lin. long, slender, glabrous; stigma 1/4 lin. long, subovoid, mostly acute. null
