suffruticose; stem erect, scabrous, branched; branches erect, virgate, closely or laxly leafy; leaves connato-vaginate, erecto-patent, linear-lanceolate or subulate, channelled, acute or subacute; cymes capitate, many flowered; petals semi-uncial, connate below, lanceolate; limb of the petals lanceolate, subacute. 12–18 inches high, much branched or subsimple, the branches corymbose, each ending in a head of flowers, Leaves 1–1 1/2 inches long, 1–1 1/2 lines wide, taper-pointed, erect or spreading. Flowers about an inch long, pale-yellow or creamy-white, sweet-scented, sometimes rosy. E. & Z.'s specimens of “ R. versicolor ” and “ R. bicolor ,” in Herb. Sond., are undistinguishable from this.
