rootstock woody, deeply descending, dividing at ground-level into several or many herbaceous branching stems 3–12 in. long, more or less procumbent or when short sometimes erect, slender, glabrous to puberulous; leaves small, thick, probably slightly fleshy when alive; petiole 1–4 1/2 lin. long, channelled and puberulous above; blade 2 1/2–11 lin. long, 2–6 lin. broad, ovate, oblong-ovate or suborbicular, obtuse or acute, apiculate, glabrous; umbels lateral at the nodes, pedunculate, 2–5-flowered; peduncles 1–4 lin. long, glabrous or with a few very minute hairs; bracts very minute; pedicels 2–4 lin. long, glabrous; sepals about 2/3 lin. long, ovate, acute, glabrous; corolla-lobes spreading, or ascending-spreading, usually more or less twisted, or at least with revolute margins, 1 1/4–1 3/4 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad, linear-oblong, subobtuse, glabrous on both sides, dark brown (Harvey); corona arising at the base of the staminal column, 3/4–1 lin. long, tubular-campanulate or cup-shaped, shortly 5-toothed at the top, not subentire as originally described, without keels or other appendages within, white; staminal column 3/4–1 lin. long, contracted below the anthers into a rather long stipe; anther-appendages ovate, acute, connivent over and concealing the umbonate style-apex; follicles solitary, 1 3/4–2 1/2 in. long and 5–7 lin. thick, lanceolate-fusiform, tapering into a beak, with a keel on each side of the opening suture, smooth, glabrous; seeds 3–3 1/2 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, ovate, nearly flat on one side, very slightly convex on the other, finely rugulose-tuberculate all over, light brown. null