a much-branched glabrous undershrub or small shrub; branches corymbose, 4-angled above, becoming terete lower down; lower branches always defoliated; leaves erect, rigid, much longer than the internodes, narrowly linear, acute, revolute at the margin, minutely puncticulate on the upper surface, with the nerve prominent beneath, 9–15 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, exstipulate, with 1 or 2 short setæ in the axils at each side of the leaves and bracts; setæ of bracts persistent as a circlet on the apex of the pedicel; flowers solitary on short pedicels in the axils of the upper leaves, usually only 2 or 4 on each twig; flowers and bracts 4, golden, decussate on the pedicel at the base of the flower, sterile or very-exceptionally with an arrested minute axillary bud, convolute, suborbicular, lower with a short acumen, 1–2 lin. long, upper with usually rounded apex, sometimes emarginate and mucronate, 2 1/2–3 lin. long, caducous or falling very soon after the flower opens; perianth golden, up to 1 3/4 lin. long; tube about four times as long as the limb; lobes deeply tinged with red, lanceolate, 4–5 lin. long; stamens as long as the perianth-lobes or slightly longer; anther shorter than the filament; capsule 8 lin. long; seeds 2–2 1/2 lin. long. null
