An erect undershrub 3–6 ft. high, the branches robust, sulcate, scarcely woody, densely brown-pubescent. Stipules 3–4 lines long, subulate from a much dilated base. Petioles stout, densely pubescent, 4–6 lines long; leaves simple, ovate, 4–5 in. long, 2–3 in. broad, the base much rounded, often cordate, slightly repand, point bluntish, coriaceous, upper surface scabrous, lower glaucous, soft with fine silky pubescence, the veins and veinlets raised. Racemes dense, sessile, narrow, axillary and terminal, the latter compound. Bracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels a line long, slender, erecto-patent. Calyx about the same length, densely silky, the teeth lanceolate, reaching about halfway down. Corolla reddish, twice as long as the calyx. Pod 1/2– 3/4 in. long, 1/8 in. broad, with 4 or 5 articulations, the lower suture waved quite halfway down, the faces densely hispid.
