branches and twigs very thinly pubescent, leafy; leaves horizontally patent, obovate-oblong, obtuse, flat, crenulate near the point, quite glabrous above, paler beneath, impunctate or thinly sprinkled with immersed glands, downy, ciliate; flowers 2–4, subsessile at the ends of the branches; calyx hairy, its lobes oblong, obtuse, ciliate; petals elliptic-orbicular, downy externally, ciliated, twice as long as the calyx. 2 feet high or more, clothed from the base with very minute pubescence. Branches and twigs few, dichotomous, sometimes elongate. Leaves 4–5-ranked, alternate, on very short, ciliate petioles, 4–5 lines long, 2 lines wide, the uppermost shorter, evidently crenulate from the middle to the apex, nerveless. Flowers rather large. Calyx 4 lines long, with a few glandular dots. Petals apiculate. Fertile filaments very short; sterile, with long hairs, taller than the anthers.
