a shrublet about 10 in. high; branchlets at first hairy, becoming glabrous, with a brownish-grey bark; leaves 3-nate, oblong or oblong-ovate, obtuse or subacute, slightly tuberculate and beset with rigid hairs; flower-heads 4โ5 lin. in diam., 8โ16-flowered, terminal; pedicels about 1/2 lin. long, glabrous; bracts 3, unequal, subscarious with green thickened tips, the middle one broadly ovate, all ciliate with gland-tipped hairs, otherwise glabrous; calyx 1 lin. long, obconic-campanulate, 4-angled, scarious, lobed to less than half-way down, glabrous, ciliate on the broadly triangular acute lobes with long gland-tipped hairs; corolla up to 2 lin. long, constricted near the top of the hairy (puberulous?) tube; lobes 1/2 as long as the tube, broadly triangular, glabrous; stamens 4, not exceeding the corolla-lobes; filaments shortly hairy; anthers with diverging scabrous cells; ovary glabrous; style much exserted; stigma capitate. null