a softly-pubescent shrub; leaves linear to oblong-linear, obtuse, more or less narrowed at the base, sessile or almost so, 3–4 in. long, 1/3– 1/2 in. broad, rather thick, glaucous, softly pubescent to subtomentose all over; secondary nerves quite obscure; cymes terminal, few-flowered, subsessile, whitish tomentose; bracts linear, about 3 lin. long; pedicels very short; calyx 3–3 1/2 lin. long, whitish tomentose; sepals lanceolate, subacute; corolla pink, pubescent without; infra-staminal part of the tube 4–4 1/2 lin. long with 5 hairy lines descending to the middle, glabrous below, supra-staminal part wide funnel-shaped-campanulate, 8 lin. long, mealy-papillose within; throat-scales small forming an obversely triangular pocket; lobes broad-ovate, cuspidate-acuminate, 6–7 lin. long; anthers 3 lin. long, apical tails 6 lin. long, exserted, loosely hairy. null
