A branching shrub; branches purplish, minutely tomentose. Leaves ascending or spreading; petiole 1/2–2 lin. long; blade 2 1/2–6 in. long, 1–2 1/2 lin. broad, linear, acute, mucronate, glabrous on both sides or with the midrib puberulous beneath, and sometimes sparsely and minutely puberulous above. Umbels pedunculate, 5–7-flowered, lateral at the nodes; peduncles 1/2–1 1/4 in. long, puberulous; pedicels 1/2–1 in. long, puberulous. Sepals 2–3 lin. long, 3/4–1 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla about 1 in. in diam., rotate, 5-lobed nearly to the base; lobes elliptic-lanceolate, acute, purplish outside, pale greenish within. Coronal-lobes arising much above the base of the staminal-column and reaching to its top, complicate, oblong in side view, truncate at the base and apex, with horizontally reflexed teeth from the apices of the inflexed sides, half as long as the upper margin of the lobe, no tooth within. Follicles 2 1/2–3 in. long, 3/4 in. thick, ovoid-lanceolate, attenuate into a beak, setose, pubescent or subtomentose all over, including the setæ, with spreading white hairs, at least when young.
