suffruticose, sub-erect, pilose or villous; leaves shortly petiolate, oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, toothed or sub-entire, sprinkled with long, soft, tufted hairs, membranous; stipules leafy, palmately 3–4- parted, the segments lanceolate; peduncles shorter than the leaves, 2-flowered; bracts palmatifid; calyx globose, inflated, villous, 5- toothed, the teeth short, deltoid; petals scarcely longer than the calyx, pubescent, obtuse; ovary obconic, canescent. Stems about 1 foot high, branching below, sub-erect, woody at base, covered with long, white, soft, stellate hairs. Leaves 1–1 1/2 inches long, rarely 1/2 inch broad, green, chiefly hairy on the nerves of the lower surface, rarely sub-entire. Stipules longer than the petioles, quite like leaves, deeply cut. Calyx becoming bladdery in fruit. Filaments cruciform, with a very hairy, transverse tubercle above the middle; anthers short. A remarkably distinct species, easily known by its stipules and inflated calyces.
