Leaves scattered, rigid, thickish, dark green, smooth, cu- 
neately linear, retuse, pointless, about half an inch long: 
petioles short, round, wrinkled; stipules 2, scariosely mem- 
branous, reddish brown, subulate, shorter than the petiole 
to the inside of which they are flatly pressed. Flowers in 
heads: heads few-(5-)flowered, nearly sessile, slightly over- 
topping the leaflets that envelop them: scales of the flower- 
buds persistent, several, small, rigid, arid, brown-bay, 
oblately ovate, concave, somewhat silky on the outside, 
shorter than the pedicles, imbricately compassing. Pedicles 
thick, silky, upright, shorter than the calyx. Calyx twice 
shorter than the corolla, tubular, membranous, pale, silky, 
evenly 5-toothed, the teeth acuminate and 3 times shorter 
than the tube. Bractes inserted at the middle of the tube 
of the calyx, lanceolately linear, brown-bay, rather higher 
than the calyx, with a silky fringe. Corolla yellow, smooth, 
not much exceeding the fourth of an inch in length. 
