plant 5–10 in. high, branching close to the ground; branches usually more or less decumbent, bifariously pubescent, with internodes 1/4–1 in. long; leaves ascending, usually unilateral; petiole 1–3 lin. long; blade 1–4 1/2 in. long, 1–2 1/2 lin. broad above the basal auricles, linear, acute, shortly hastate, truncate or rounded at the base, subcoriaceous, thickened along the flat or slightly recurved margins, glabrous on both sides or thinly setulose-scabrous on the midrib beneath; umbels solitary on each branch, terminal, pedunculate, 3–6-flowered; peduncle 1/2–2 3/4 in. long, pubescent on one side; bracts 3–5 lin. long, 1/4– 1/3 lin. broad, linear, acute, glabrous or sparsely setulose-scabrous, deciduous; pedicels 1/3– 2/3 in. long, pubescent on one side; sepals 2 1/2–4 lin. long, 3/4–1 lin. broad, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, glabrous or with a few hairs; corolla-lobes very spreading or reflexed, 4 1/2–7 lin. long, 1 2/3–3 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute or subobtusely pointed, glabrous on the back, minutely papillate on the inner face; corona-lobes arising 3/4–1 1/2 lin. up and decurrent to the base of the staminal column, and overtopping it by nearly or quite 1/2 of their length, 3–5 lin. long, 2/3– 3/4 lin. broad and of nearly equal breadth throughout across the side, compressed-complicate, with a small triangular cup-like mouth, erect, recurved-spreading from a little below the apex, and, viewed sideways, dorsally produced into a short deltoid point 1/2 lin. long; staminal column 2 3/4–3 1/4 lin. long; anther-appendages elliptic or suborbicular, obtuse, inflexed over the style-apex; anther-wings 1/2 lin. broad, obtusely rounded at the lower half; follicles 3 1/2–4 1/2 in. long, about 1/3 in. thick, fusiform, tapering into a long acute beak, smooth, glabrous. null
