procumbent; branches stout, flexuous, rigid, brittle, cano-pubescent, 6–9 in. long; leaves erect-spreading, imbricate, broad-linear, acute, thick, pallid, somewhat glossy, 2–4 lin. long; flowers mostly cernuous; pedicels 1 lin. long or less; bracts ovate, acute, keeled, rigid, thick, concave, 3–4 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but more scarious and more acuminate (sometimes “very unequal,” Bentham), 3–6 lin. long; corolla 7–10 lin. long; tube rosy, white or yellowish; segments erect or spreading, acute, sometimes discoloured; filaments 1/2 lin. wide; anthers somewhat spathulate, cells at length very divaricate; ovary villous with white hairs, sometimes glabrescent. null
