branchlets velvety-pubescent, pale brown; leaves 3-nate, 1–2 lin. long, linear, subterete, obtuse, finely pubescent with spreading hairs; whorls on the main branches distant, usually with crowded tufts in their axils; flowers in small clusters on the tuft-like axillary branchlets, subsessile; bracts unequal, linear, puberulous, the larger 1/3 lin. long; calyx 1/2 lin. long, probably enlarging in fruit, campanulate, shortly 4-toothed, minutely ciliate on the teeth, otherwise quite glabrous (not pubescent as described), smooth, not angular nor ribbed; corolla 1 lin. long, tubular-campanulate, glabrous; lobes very short and broad, obtuse, erect; staminal filaments about 1 1/3 lin. long; anthers exserted, basifixed, 1/3 lin. long, cuneately narrowed to the spurred base; spurs pendent, sublanceolate, usually with 1–2 obtuse lobules or crenations on the inner margin; ovary minutely pubescent; style 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long; stigma simple. null