shrubby, erect, canescent; leaves tapering at base into a very short petiole, oblong or sub-lanceolate, acute or mucronulate, entire or denticulate near the apex, softly velvetty on both sides; stipules narrow-subulate, somewhat longer than the petiole; flowers racemulose, peduncles 2–3-flowered, bracts subulate; calyx turbinate, velvetty or stellato-tomentose, semi-5-fid, 5-angled, the lobes triangular, acute; petals twice as long as the calyx, the claw longer than the roundish limb; fil. oblong or obovate, longer than the anthers; ovary oblong, canescent. 2–3 feet high, erect, and much branched, woody. Very like H. velutina, but differing in stipules, &c. The leaves in our specimens are much smaller and narrower than in Jacquin's figure, otherwise very good.
