a branching shrubby plant, 2–3 ft. high, with the habit of A. fruticosa, Linn.; stems white-tomentose on the young parts; leaves ascending, 3–5 in. long, 1/2–3 lin. broad, linear, tapering to an acute point, with revolute margins, narrowed at the base into a petiole 1–3 lin. long, puberulous with curved hairs above and on the midrib beneath; umbels numerous, lateral at the nodes, racemose, 4–6-flowered; peduncles 1/2–1 in. long, white-tomentose; bracts 1/3– 1/2 in. long, linear, tapering to an awn-like point, tomentose, very deciduous; pedicels 3/4–1 1/6 in. long, white-tomentose; sepals reflexed, 3 lin. long, 3/4–1 lin. broad at the base, thence tapering to a very acute point, tomentose; corolla-lobes reflexed; 3–4 lin. long, 2–3 lin. broad, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, obtusely pointed, ciliate on one or both margins, apparently white or pale yellowish, tinted with purplish on the back; corona-lobes arising 1/2– 3/4 lin. up the staminal column and reaching its top, 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long, subquadrate and 1–1 1/2 lin. broad when viewed sideways, compressed-complicate, shallowly divided or grooved along the top and inner side, otherwise solid, without a tooth or process within, top margin slightly rounded, notched in front of a backwardly directed falcate tooth at the inner apical angles, inner margins narrowly winged, the wing often ending in a small tooth at the apex; staminal column 2–2 1/2 lin. long; anther-appendages suborbicular or elliptic, their obtuse tips inflexed on the rim of the truncate style-apex; follicles ellipsoid or ellipsoid-ovoid at the lower part, abruptly contracted into a stout subulate beak, white-tomentose and covered all over with fine dark filiform processes 3–4 lin. long. null
