twigs pubescent; leaves spreading, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, young ones hairy, old ones smooth, shining above, flattish, tomentose beneath, with revolute margins; flowers pedicellate, axillary, solitary, racemose, shorter than the leafy bractea; calyx campanulate, hirsute. Shrub, 1 or more feet high. Leaves alternate, rarely sub-opposite, 4–6 lines long, 1 line wide, rarely longer, in var. δ. shorter, obtuse or sub-cordate at base, smooth or hairy, or sub-villous above. Raceme ovate, about 6 lines long, at length lax, inch long or longer. Flowers white. Pedicels 1–4 lines long. Calyx campanulate, segments acute, ferruginous on the inside. Capsule ovate-globose, the size of a pea; area as large as the capsule or smaller.
