a shrub 3–4 ft. high; branches diffuse, rigid, at first pilose, soon glabrous, verrucose, leaf-scars prominent; leaves crowded, opposite, oblong-lanceolate, 5 lin. long, 4/5 lin. wide, incurved, obtuse, thickly coriaceous, densely white-pilose when young, at length minutely verrucose; flowers in terminal 3–5-flowered clusters, exinvolucrate; calyx densely tomentose, dull purple, ribbed; tube subcylindrical, 8 lin. long; lobes ovate or lanceolate, acute, 1 1/2 lin. long, 1 lin. wide; petals 4, divided into many fleshy processes intermixed with hairs and almost closing the mouth of the calyx-tube; anthers oblong, obtuse, 1/2 lin. long; ovary ovoid, with a terminal tuft of hairs; style nearly as long as the calyx-tube; stigma subcapitate. null
