the twigs, petioles and peduncles hispid, with short, spreading hairs; leaves opposite, minutely-petiolate, elliptic-oblong or ovate, obtuse or subacute, acute at base, 3-nerved at base and penninerved, glaucous, the younger ones scabrous and hispidulous, especially on the lower side, at length nearly glabrate; peduncles axillary, 2–4 together, 1-flowered, hispid, short; bract linear, hispid; calyx ciliate, repand; corolla glabrous, subcylindrical, 5-lobed, the tube splitting, the linear-lanceolate clawed lobes erect. Robust, with a rough, brown bark; all the young parts clothed with short, whitish, rough pubescence. Leaves 1 1/2–2 inches long, an inch or more wide; petioles 1–2 lines long. Peduncles 2–3 lines long. Flowers 2–2 1/2 inches long, resembling those of L. Natalitius. Bract fully as long as the calyx, or a little longer.
