apparently over a foot high, rather laxly branched; branchlets puberulous, whitish or pale grey; leaves 3-nate, 3/4–1 1/2 lin. long, linear, obtuse, puberulous, erect or ascending, varying from slightly imbricate to shorter than the internodes; flowers 3–6 (or 9?), sessile or subsessile in small head-like axillary and terminal clusters; bracts subequal or 1 longer or shorter than the others and often leaf-like, nearly or quite as long as the calyx-tube, linear, obtuse, often slightly thickened at the apex, pubescent; calyx 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, campanulate, slightly fleshy, not angular nor ribbed, densely white-pubescent, especially on the tube; teeth about 3/4 as long as the tube, erect, deltoid, acute; corolla nearly 1 lin. long, obconic-campanulate, glabrous; lobes erect, much broader than long, rounded; anthers exserted, 1/2 lin. long, dorsifixed just above the base, oblong, spurless; ovary somewhat turbinate or obconic with a short conical top, densely pubescent; stigma small, capitate. null
