much branched, branches virgate; twigs pubescent; leaves spreading, linear-lanceolate, acute, the lower sub-linear, smooth and shining above, whitish tomentose beneath, with revolute margins; flowers in the axil of the upper-most leaves sessile, solitary or spiked, spike lax, shorter than the leaves; calyx minute, tomentose; capsule obovate-turbinate, smooth, with a small area. Over 2 feet high. Branches and twigs filiform, abbreviate, greyish. Lower leaves about 1 inch long, 1 1/2 line wide, the upper 5–3 lines long, 1/2– 3/4 line wide. Flowering branches paniculate. Flowers in the lower axils spiked; spike few-flowered, bracteate, 4–6 lines long; in the upper axils solitary, whitish downy. Calyx about 1 line long; segments spreading, acute. Capsule blackish when dry, smooth, the size of a pea.—Very near P. paniculata, but the leaves and the area are much smaller.
