much branched, branches thinly villous, becoming glabrous; lower leaves broadly oblong, upper lanceolate, rigid, acute or acuminate, flat, one-nerved, glabrous, the younger ones thinly villous; flowers about four in an imperfect umbel, on silky pedicels longer than the ovate, coloured, concave, pubescent and ciliate bracts; calyx silky, its segments broadly ovate, mucronate, the lowest acuminate. A stout shrub, 2–3 feet high, corymbose or umbellately branched, the old branches naked, the young densely leafy. Leaves uncial, 1/4 inch wide, mostly lanceolate. Pedicels an inch long or less, twice as long as the bracts, or barely longer. Flowers large.
