an erect shrub, 3–4 ft. high; branches ternate; branchlets strict, obliquely erect; leaves simple, subsessile, 3–5 fascicled on small cushions, sessile on the branches, oblong-spathulate, spathulate or obovate-spathulate, more rarely obcordate, 3 1/2–8 lin. long, 1 1/2–3 1/3 lin. broad, undulate, glabrous; flowers several, fascicled on a terminal cushion; calyx tubular-campanulate, 4 lin. long, irregularly 3–4-lobed and split down one or both sides, 5-cuspidate, prominently ribbed, pilose or subglabrous; corolla salmon-coloured; tube narrowly funnel-shaped, 3/4 in. long, cylindric portion equalling the calyx, glabrous outside, slightly pilose within below the insertion of the stamens; lobes orbicular, 5 lin. in diam., crenulate; stamens inserted 4 lin. above base of corolla-tube; filaments 4 lin. long; anthers 4 lin. long, beaked above; ovary 1 1/2 lin. long; capsule oblong, shortly beaked, 3 3/4 in. long, 5 lin. broad. null
