a white-woolly shrub or shrublet; branches moderately stout, more or less divergent, at first covered with a minute tomentum, naked below, densely leafy on the upper part; leaves 3-nate, densely imbricate, 3/4–1 1/4 lin. long, 1/4– 1/3 lin. broad, linear-oblong, obtuse, slightly incurved, flat and glabrous above, convex, grooved and white-woolly or glabrous on the back, densely white-woolly-ciliate; flowers 1–6 together in terminal clusters; pedicels 1/4– 1/2 lin. long; bracts 3, adpressed to the calyx, equal or unequal, all 1 lin. long, linear or linear-lanceolate, or the middle one larger and oblanceolate-spathulate, obtuse or acute, densely fringed with long white woolly hairs, otherwise glabrous; calyx-segments erect and agglutinated to the corolla, about 1 1/4 lin. long, 1/2– 2/3 lin. broad, lanceolate, ovate or oblong-ovate, obtuse or acute, densely white-woolly on the margins and sometimes on the back, very viscid and broadly bordered with a series of papillæ on the inner face; corolla 1 2/3–1 3/4 lin. long, acutely 4-angled, elongate-ovoid or obovoid or pear-shaped inflated at the base and tubular above, shortly 4-toothed, glabrous; stamens 6, much exserted, free; filaments 1 3/4–2 lin. long, linear, glabrous; anthers 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, linear, bipartite, spurless, dorsifixed close to the base, smooth, opening by longitudinal slits; ovary compressed-ellipsoid, obtuse, glabrous, 2-celled; style 2 1/2–4 1/2 lin. long, exserted much beyond the anthers, filiform, glabrous; stigma minutely capitate and entire or 2-lobed and somewhat crutch-like. null
