Erect annual to 0.6 m.; stems pale yellow, strongly speakled reddish purple; leaves at this season withered; phyllaries pale green, strongly tinged reddish, erect becoming reflexed; fruits black with yellowish setae; apex of fruit produced in a very long golden brown beak; beaks helically twisted together when immature, straight and widely spreading when ripe; a few flowers present on some plants; ray florets deep yellow in lower half; pale yellow in upper half; disc and styles yellow. In Brachystegia-Uapaca woodland on sand. Sheet 2