Pteronia fastigiata Thunb.

Branches finely spinulose with the appressed persistent bases of the connective between the leaf-bases, glabrous. Leaves opposite, connate and sheathing at the base for about 3 mm., ericoid, rounded at the apex, convex below, concave above, 3-5 mm long, slightly curved, fleshy, glabrous. Heads 4-flowered, solitary or rarely in pairs or threes, narrowly cylindric, 1.2-1.5 cm long, 4-5 mm in diameter across the middle. Involucral bracts 6-7-seriate; the outermost ovate-triangular, about l-5 mm long; the innermost linear-lanceolate, about 1 cm long, all subacute and greenish when dry, shortly and rather densely ciliate. Receptacle very small. Corolla 1 cm long, gradually widened upwards, glabrous; lobes linear-lanceolate, 4 mm long. Anthers not exserted beyond the tips of the corolla lobes. Achenes 3 mm long, densely appressed-villous. Pappus straw-coloured, 8 mm long.