Evidently a perennial herb, about 4-6 in. high, with a tuberous or woody rootstock producing annual stems, only one seen, about 1 1/4 lin. thick, branching into a 3-rayed umbel at the top, with 1 ray below it, glabrous; rays 1 1/3-21/4 in. long, 1/2-3/4 lin. thick, once (or perhaps twice) forked, with the secondary rays 3/4-1 1/2 in. long, puberulous; leaves not seen, all fallen, but probably like the bracts and evidently alternate; bracts opposite, sessile, 3-6 lin. long, 2-3 lin. broad, broadly ovate, acuminute, puberulous on both sides; involucre 1/2 in. in diam., broadly and rather shallowly cup-shaped, puberulous outside, with 5 pectinate glands and 5 transversely rectangular fringed puberulous lobes; glands not contiguous, spreading, 1 1/2 lin. in their greater diam., unequally two-lipped, with 5-6 subulate simple or forked processes 1-1 1/2 lin. long on their crinkled outer margin, puberulous all over the outer surface, but glabrous on the inner or upper surface of the gland itself; ovary and capsule not seen, the involucres examined being male.
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