stem suffruticose, branched at base or simple, ascending-erect, tall, robust, densely leafy below, laxly leafy upwards; leaves connate, broadly oblong or tongue-shaped, obtuse, flat, spreading, cartilagineo-ciliate, glabrous; cymes sub-pedunculate, forked, much branched, corymboso-paniculate, with linear oblong-bracts; calyx-lobes 2/3 of corolla, lanceolate, acute, keeled, glabrous; petals nearly free, oblongo-lanceolate, erecto-patent or recurved, mucronate; styles subulate. Stems 2 feet high, robust, surculi densely leafy. Leaves tongue-shaped, the lower ones 2–2 1/2 inches long, 4–5 lines wide; the upper shorter, but scarcely narrower. Cyme much branched, flat-topped. Flowers creamy white, 3–4 lines long. Like a very luxuriant form of the preceding.
