Nearly glabrescent, much branched. Branchlets obtusely quadrangular, rigid. Leaves elliptical, obtusely acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, rigid, subsessile, ranging up to 3 1/2 by 1 1/2 in.; margins reflexed; lateral veins 6–8 on each side of midrib; stipules ovate, caudate-acuminate, nearly flat, erect, ciliolate, 1/2– 5/8 in. long, persistent. Flowers 2–3 in. long, subsessile, in small dense cymes; bracteoles linear-subulate. Calyx-tube pubescent; lobes lanceolate, acute, rigid, obscurely ciliolate, 3/8– 1/2 in. long, subfoliaceous or subglumaceous. Corolla-lobes ovate, mucronate, 3/4 in. long, shortly and appressedly hairy outside, glabrous inside. Style puberulous above, exserted; branches slender.
