Lasiosiphon splendens Endl.

A much-branched shrub; branches at first densely adpressed-silky, leaf-scars small; leaves alternate, lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute, up to nearly 12 lin. long and 3 lin. wide, densely clothed with adpressed silvery silky hairs; involucral leaves scarcely wider than the cauline; flowers in terminal sessile heads; calyx 8 lin. long, subcylindrical slightly inflated above, densely silky outside, hairs longer in the lower part; lobes oblong, obtuse, 2 1/2 lin. long, 2/3 lin. wide, rather thick, yellow (Wood); petals 1/2 lin. long, ovate, membranous; anthers oblong, obtuse, 1/2 lin. long; ovary oblong, compressed, glabrous; style as long as the calyx-tube; stigma capitate.