shrubby, virgate, canescent; branches downy or glabrescent; leaves on short petioles, linear-cuneate, truncate, 2â3-toothed, or entire and obtuse or sub-acute, canescent and pulverulent on both sides; stipules minute, subulate; peduncles racemose, one-flowered, pendulous, shorter than the leaf; calyx campanulate, villous, semi-5-fid, veiny, the lobes ovate, acute; petals twice as long, obovate; fil. obovate, shorter than the tapering, ciliate anthers; capsule plumoso-villose, truncate, ten-horned. 2â3 feet high, pallid and more or less velvetty with very short hairs. Flowers violet or purplish, in terminal pseudo-racemes.
