plant 3–10 in. high, branching at the base; branches erect or decumbent at the base, pubescent, chiefly along 2 broad lines; leaves in 3–7 pairs to a branch, often distant, ascending; petiole 1–2 lin. long; blade 2/3–1 1/2 in. long, 4–9 lin. broad, ovate or ovate-anceolate, acute, rounded or subcordate at the base, thinly and harshly pubescent on both sides, scabrid on the slightly thickened or revolute margin; umbels 1–4 to a stem, subaxillary and terminal, pedunculate, 10–16-flowered; peduncles 1/3–1 1/4 in. long, shortly hairy along one side; bracts 2/3–1 1/2 lin. long, subulate; pedicels 2–3 lin. long, shortly hairy along one side, deflexed in fruit; sepals ascending, 1 1/3–1 1/2 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad, narrowly lanceolate, acute, shortly hairy on the back, usually reddish; corolla not much longer than the calyx, greenish-white, sometimes purplish down the back; lobes incurved-erect, 1–1 1/3 lin. long, about 3/4 lin. broad, ovate, obtuse, flattish, without a gibbosity on the glabrous inner face, sparsely hairy on the back; corona-lobes arising at the base of the staminal column and usually slightly exceeding it, falcately incurved-erect, distant, 3/4 lin. long, 1/3– 1/2 lin. broad, linear or linear-spathulate, obtuse, viewed dorsally, fleshy, apparently somewhat compressed-keeled on the back, or perhaps very convex, flat or slightly concave on the inner face, apparently yellow or ochreous; staminal column 2/3– 3/4 lin. long; anthers subquadrate, their appendages broadly ovate, inflexed over the truncate apex of the style; follicle solitary, erect, about 2 1/4 in. long, 5 lin. thick, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent; seeds 2 lin. long, scarcely 1 lin. broad, very convex on one side, having a raised rim around a flattish disk on the other, rugulose with slender, irregular ridges, dull brown. null
