shrubby, erect; branches virgate, stellato-pubescent; leaves petiolate, obovate or lanceolate, obtuse or sub-acute, serrulate towards the apex, puberulous and sub-canescent on both sides; stipules dimorphous, the lower small and narrow, the upper large, leafy, ovate or ovato-lanceolate or oblong, acute, one-nerved; peduncles sub-terminal, 2â3-flowered, short; bracts lanceolate, deciduous; calyx globose, inflated, villous, 5-angled, the broadly ovate, mucronulate lobes connivent; petals scarcely longer than the calyx, revolute, the claw shorter than the narrow limb; fil. linear, much longer than the anthers; ovary oblong, stellulate. Not much branched, 2â3 feet high, with long, simple, erect branches. Pubescence generally pale, not always so. Leaves commonly obovate and very obtuse; but varying as above. Calyx bladdery. Petals pale yellow.
