a bush 1–2 ft. high; branches puberulous or pubescent; leaves 3-nate, adpressed or ascending, 2/3–1 lin. long with the petiole, 1/4– 1/3 lin. broad, linear to narrowly ovate-oblong, obtuse or with a sessile truncate gland at the apex, denticulate on the margins, glabrous, perhaps viscid; flowers sessile, 2–20 in small terminal head-like clusters 1–2 lin. in diam., greenish-yellow; calyx 2/3– 3/4 lin. long and as much in diam., coriaceous, 4-lobed, broadly pear-shaped, with the tips of the lobes incurved, rather densely puberulous all over outside; lobes broader than long, the outer one much broader than the rest, all subtruncate, with or without an apiculus or the larger with a short thick point, ciliate; corolla 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, 1/3 lin. in diam., pear-shaped, glabrous, 4-lobed, about as long as the calyx, with the very short rounded suberect lobes exserted when fully developed, not hyaline, drying brown; stamens 4, included, adhesive to the corolla; filaments free, linear; anthers at first connate, apparently at length free, 1/3 lin. long, subrectangular, broadly notched at the apex; ovary ovoid, narrowed into the style, which is minutely puberulous at the base; stigma large, peltate, with an erect margin, just exserted beyond the corolla. null