the twigs, very young leaves, calyx, and corollas minutely pulverulent, otherwise glabrous; leaves opposite or alternate, shortly petiolate, ovate-oblong or oblongo-lanceolate, obtuse, sub-acute at base, thick, penninerved beneath, glaucescent; peduncles axillary, shorter than the calyx, 3–5-flowered; flowers sessile; bract obliquely cupshaped; calyx repand or truncate; unopened corolla much constricted above the urceolate, swollen base, obtuse, 5-lobed, the tube splitting, the short, spoonshaped lobes reflexed. Robust, with a pale, ashen, or rufous bark. Leaves 1 1/2–2 inches long, 3/4–1 inch wide, all but the very young ones quite glabrous and glaucous. Common peduncle 1–2 lines long. Corolla 1–1 1/2 inch long, its blunt apex somewhat 5-umboned; tube splitting down one side nearly to the base.
