erect, sub-dichotomous, twigs downy; leaves alternate, on very short petioles, sub-orbicular or oval, mucronate, with revolute, thickened margins, paler beneath and punctate, all equal, or the lower ones oblong; flowers terminal; peduncles bibracteate; calyx glabrous or pubescent, its lobes erect, broadly ovate, obtuse, sub-carinate, thinner at the margin; petals roundish, thrice as long as the calyx. A shrub, 1–2 feet high. Leaves 1-nerved, the lower in γ., 4–5 lines long, 1 1/2 wide, the upper in α & γ, either scattered or imbricate, sub-bifariously glandular, 1–2 lines long, 1–1 1/2 wide; in β. mostly a little larger, all roundish, many-glanded. Peduncles 4–6 lines long, towards the middle furnished with cuneate, obtuse bracts. Calyx about 3 lines long, glandular at back, leafy, the margin, especially in α and γ, much thinner, naked and coloured, in β ciliated. Petals on longish claws, obtuse, sub-retuse, white within, partly purple externally; the claw pubescent on the inside. Sterile filaments, and the much shorter fertile pilose.
