branchlets crowded, subparallel, covered with a minute dense white tomentum, becoming brown and glabrous; leaves 3-nate, adpressed, 1/2–1 1/4 lin. long, linear, obtuse, glabrous, very minutely denticulate; flowers 2–3 in a cluster, lateral and terminal; pedicels 1/3– 1/2 lin. long, glabrous; calyx-lobes subequal, subcoriaceous, 1/5– 1/4 lin. long, 1/5 lin. broad, ovate, obtuse, glabrous, minutely ciliate; corolla about 1/2 lin. long and the same in diam., subglobose-campanulate; lobes about 1/4 lin. long and broad, broadly ovate, obtuse; stamens about as long as the corolla; filaments nearly 1/4 lin. long, adnate to the bottom of the corolla and some of them sometimes connate for half their length, free above; anthers 1/4 lin. long, bifid to nearly half-way down, cohering at the middle, becoming free when in fruit; ovary globose, 4-grooved, glabrous; style 1/4 lin. long, shortly exserted; stigma 1/8– 1/5 lin. in diam., funnel-shaped, with incurved margin or crater-like; seeds usually solitary in each cell. null
