about 2 ft. high (Burchell); branchlets erect, minutely subtomentose-puberulous; leaves 3-nate, erect, imbricate, 1–3 lin. long with the petiole, linear, acute, glabrous; flowers subsessile or distinctly pedicellate; bracts subequal and about as long as the calyx-tube or the middle one longer, linear, subacute, minutely ciliate; calyx 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, campanulate, deltoidly toothed to about the middle, obscurely 8-ribbed, very minutely puberulous, very adhesive to the corolla; corolla 1–1 1/4 lin. long, suburceolate-ovoid or -obovoid, contracted at the mouth, glabrous; lobes broader than long, rounded, erect; anthers exserted, basifixed, 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, linear, spurred at the base; spurs awn-like, pendant, sometimes nearly obsolete; ovary not longer than broad, with 4 compressed angles, becoming subglobose in fruit, glabrous. null