suffruticose, erect, stellato-pubescent and glandular; branches scabrous; leaves on short petioles, oblong or obovate, flat, dentate, thinly pubescent above, more thickly stellulate below; stipules minute, ovate, acute; flower-stalks axillary, 1-flowered, as long as the leaves, minutely bracteate above the middle; calyx campanulate, laxly stellate, deeply 5-fid, the lobes subulate; petals scarcely as long as the calyx, obovate; fil. obovato-spathulate, much shorter than the taper-pointed, connivent and exserted anthers; ovary obovoid, pubescent. 1–2 feet high, rather thinly pubescent; the branches leafy below, flowering towards the ends, the upper leaves gradually smaller and narrower. Lower leaves 1 inch long. The long, ciliate, tapering, exserted anthers, in this and the two following species, stand close together in a cone, like those of a Borage.
