a shrub, 3–4 ft. high; branches erect, puberulous, more or less intermingled with long spreading often gland-tipped hairs or subhispid, greyish; leaves 4-nate, incurved-spreading, 1/2–1 lin. long, oblong-ovate, subacute, thick, flat and glabrous above, openly grooved on the very convex minutely hairy back; flowers in terminal clusters of 4 or fewer on short lateral branchlets, subsessile or on very minute pedicels; bracts 3, adpressed to and equalling the flower in length, the outer or middle bract 3/4 lin. long, 2/3 lin. broad, broadly ovate, acute, partly covering the rather smaller laterally excised side bracts, glabrous, minutely gland-ciliate; calyx 4-partite; segments about 2/3 lin. long, one obovate-spathulate, rather broader than the other linear three, puberulous, minutely gland-ciliate; corolla 2/3 lin. long, cup-shaped, with 4 rounded lobes nearly twice as broad as long, glabrous; stamens as long as or very slightly exceeding the corolla; filaments 1/4 lin. long; anthers 1/2 lin. long, oblong, with contiguous parallel cells, bearded at the base and along the inner margins, opening to 2/3 of the way down by very large pores; ovary subglobose, 2-celled, minutely puberulous on the top; style filiform, very slightly exceeding the anthers, glabrous; stigma minutely 4-lobed. null
