unarmed, young branches minutely downy; leaves fasciculate, obovate, suborbicular or elliptic, obtuse or subacute, cuneate at the base, glabrous or minutely downy beneath, on very short petioles; peduncles axillary, one-flowered, shorter than the calyx; tube of calyx obconical, lobes obovate, obtuse; corolla funnel-shaped, limb erect, spreading with oblong flat lobes; anthers linear, acute; fruit sub-globose, 10-ribbed. A rigid shrub, with erect, spreading, greyish branches. Stipules on the young twigs broadly ovate. Leaves 1/2–1 inch long, when young often minutely downy. Peduncles very short. Calyx 2 lines long, tube about as long as the spathulate, obtuse, or mucronulate lobes. Corolla 1/2 inch long. Fruit the size of a pea, black. I cannot regard Var. γ. as a distinct species, the leaves being often larger than in Var. α. In many specimens collected by Ecklon and Zeyher, the calyx lobes are evidently mucronulate and not quite glabrous.
