much branched; branchlets minutely tomentose, erect, often flexuose, greyish or whitish; leaves erectly imbricate or shorter than the internodes, 1 1/4–2 1/4 lin. long, linear, acute to subobtuse; flowers 1–3 together, axillary and terminal, subsessile; calyx (excluding the larger lobe, which is sometimes free to the base) 1/3– 1/2 lin. long, broader than long, shorter than the corolla-tube, lobed to the middle or beyond, glabrous; lobes broadly ovate, acute or subobtuse or the larger one acuminate, minutely ciliate; corolla 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, campanulate, with incurved lobes, glabrous; stamens 6–8; filaments at least half as long as the anthers, connate at the base or nearly to the middle when young, becoming free with the enlargement of the ovary; anthers 1/4– 1/3 lin. long, becoming quite free with age; ovary with several longitudinal ridges on the upper part, quite glabrous, 2–4-celled; style usually distinct and sometimes up to 1/6 lin. long; stigma more or less funnel-shaped, with a narrow rim to the cup, glabrous; fruit compressed or subglobose, obscurely angular on the upper part, but often with several faint longitudinal ridges, prominently reticulated on the lower part, 2–4-celled. null
