much branched; branchlets erect, densely and minutely pubescent as well as pilose; leaves 3-nate, imbricate or about as long as the internodes, ascending or erect, 2/3–2 1/2 lin. long with the petiole, linear, oblong-linear or rarely somewhat ovate, obtuse or subacute, glabrous, ciliate (at least when young) with a few long spreading hairs and also on the petiole; flowers in dense head-like globose or ovoid terminal clusters 2–4 lin. in diam.; clusters compound, leafy, the flowers solitary or 2–3 together on very short peduncles in the axils of the leaves, very shortly pedicellate; bracts 0; calyx 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, tubular-campanulate or campanulate, coriaceous, nerveless, glabrous, apparently red; tube variable in length; teeth 1/3– 1/2 as long as the tube, erect, ovate, obtuse or subacute, not ciliate; corolla 1–1 1/2 lin. long, tubular or oblong-tubular, narrowed at the base, glabrous, the 2 lobes connivent and almost closed together and rounded on the back, or gaping and straight at the back, red (Galpin); anthers basifixed, less than 1/2 lin. long, linear-oblong, more or less cuneate at the spurless base; ovary compressed-oblong, glabrous; stigma simple. null
