a perennial undershrub, subherbaceous, about 3 in. high or more; rootstock somewhat woody, branched; stems trailing or ascending, radiating from the crown of the root, somewhat wiry, pubescent; flowering branches erect-patent or erect; branchlets rather slender, firm, leafy, obtusely tetragonous or subterete; leaves opposite, subopposite or scattered, narrowly elliptical or oblong, obtuse or subacute, not much narrowed at the sessile base, more or less scabrid-puberulous, entire or subentire, 1/3–1 in. long, 1/20– 1/3 in. broad, rather thick and rigid, somewhat dusky-green when dried, feebly 3-nerved at the base; midrib prominent beneath; margins narrowly revolute, scabrid; flowers in the upper axils numerous, subsessile, rather crowded, 3/4–1 in. long, pink with a lighter shade within, Gloxinia-like; bracteoles 2, sublinear, spreading or suberect, 1/8– 1/3 in. long, inserted at the base of the calyx; calyx 3/8– 1/2 in. long in flower, rather longer in fruit, campanulate, deeply 5-cleft, 10-nerved, scabrid-puberulous; lobes triangular-lanceolate, acute, about 1/4 in. long; corolla-tube funnel-shaped, subventricose, more or less pubescent outside with pallid hairs; limb spreading, 3/4–1 in. in diam.; lobes broadly rounded, 1/5– 1/4 in. long in flower, rather longer in fruit; filaments bearded; style slender, exceeding the stamens, glabrous; stigma small, subglobose, bifid; ovary gibbous, glabrous; fruit ovoid-oblong, glabrous, compressed, 1/5 in. long, 1/12 in. broad below, included with the calyx. null
