recurved, imbricated tetrastichously, sessile, rigid, ovate 
obovate or almost orbicular, obtuse, flat or concave, quite 
entire, 3- rarely 5-nerved, hairy on both surfaces. Flower. 
heads globose, half to three-quarters of an inch in diameter, 
terminal, though as the axis elongates and becomes leafy 
the head becomes situated some inches below the top of the 
branchlet, of a dull red-purple colour. Calyz-tube villous, 
rounded at the base; lobes acute, subulate. Pe/als minute, 
scarcely exceeding the calyx, oblong, concave, quite entire, 
with ciliate margins. PAalanges of stamens much exceeding 
the calyx; claw linear, glabrous, giving off about twelve 
slender spreading filaments, each terminated by an adnate 
short two-celled anther, whose cells open by terminal short 
slits. Ovary a villous tubercle at the base of the calyx- 
tube.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1 and 2, Leaves ; 8, flower; 4, longitudinal section of calyx ; 5, petal; 
6, tip of filament and anther :—all magnified. 
