branchlets ascending or spreading, usually curved, minutely or conspicuously pubescent with spreading glandular hairs; leaves 3-nate, spreading, 2/3–1 lin. long, ovate, oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, somewhat turgid, hispid on the back with rather long gland-tipped hairs, puberulous on the upper surface; flowers 1–6 together at the tips of the branchlets; pedicels 1/2–1 lin. long, varying from glandular-pubescent to nearly glabrous; calyx-lobes thin, with the keel or tip thick and coriaceous, very broadly ovate or subquadrate-oblong, acute or obtuse, variably connate or nearly free, ciliate with long gland-tipped hairs, otherwise glabrous, the larger 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, 1/3– 1/2 lin. broad; corolla 2/5– 3/4 lin. long, 3/4 lin. in diam., campanulate or broadly cup-shaped, 4-lobed to about 1/3 of the way down, glabrous; lobes very obtuse, very minutely denticulate; stamens not exserted; filaments broad, entirely connate; anthers 1/3– 2/5 lin. long, oblong, bifid to nearly 1/2-way, connate; ovary subglobose, 4-grooved, glabrous; style very much exserted, 1–1 1/4 lin. long, glabrous or pubescent; stigma circular, 2/5 lin. in diam., flat or nearly so, with 4 minute central tubercles; seeds often solitary, rather large, null