stout, much branched; branches hirsute with longish, coarse, tawny, hairs; leaves spreading or squarrose, those upon the primary branches mostly gemmiferous with internodes longer than the leaves, those on the ultimate branchlets more crowded, broad-ovate, subacute, subcordate at the base, open-backed, margins reflexed, hirsute and rough with raised tubercles above, becoming glabrous and shining, closely-felted, white-tomentose below, 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long; inflorescence pseudo-spicate on short lateral branchlets, or in interrupted tufts, flowers solitary to 3-nate; pedicels 1/2 lin. long; bracts 3, basal or remote, small; sepals oblong, tapering to the inflexed apex, subpubescent or glabrous, ciliate, greenish, 2/3– 3/4 lin. long, reaching mostly about 1/2 the height of the corolla; corolla broad-urceolate, throat contracted, glabrous or hirtulous, viscid, 1 1/4 lin. long; segments deltoid, acute, 1/4– 1/3 the length of the tube; filaments rather broad, more or less bent below the anther, 2/3– 7/8 lin. long; anthers lateral or sublateral, subovate or ovate-cuneate, obtuse, smooth, about 2/5 lin. long, muticous; pore 1/2– 2/3 the length of the cell; style exserted, dilated at the apex, rather slender; stigma obconic, and truncate or slightly cyathiform at the apex, or subpeltate; ovary densely woolly. null
