twigs pubescent; leaves imbricate, erect, sub-incurved and complicate-triquetrous, lanceolate, glabrous above, channelled, keeled and hairy beneath; flowers sub-umbellate; peduncles mostly unequal, villous, longer than the floral leaves; Calyx-lobes ovate-oblong, sub-acute; petals more than twice as long as the calyx, with a glabrous claw equalling the calyx, and an elliptic-oblong limb; sterile filaments longer than the calyx, linear, pubescent to the middle, narrowed and glabrous at point; ovary and style glabrous. A foot or more high, with scattered or sub-ternate branches, and filiform twigs. Leaves 3–4 lines long, the upper shorter. Peduncles numerous, the inner much longer than the rest. Calyx 1 1/2 line long, pubescent, the segments unequal, keeled at back. Petals flesh coloured, lilac or white, 2–2 1/2 lines long. Ovaries 2–3, glabrous.
