apparently laxly branched; branchlets divaricate at the base, then ascending, flexuose, rather distant, very minutely puberulous, very pale greyish-brown; leaves 3-nate, erect, shorter than or slightly exceeding the internodes and then slightly imbricate, 1 1/2–2 lin. long, linear, acute, glabrous; flowers 1–3 together, axillary and terminal, sessile or subsessile; calyx (excluding the larger lobe) scarcely 1/2 lin. long, broadly and shallowly cup-shaped, shorter than the corolla-tube, usually lobed to about half-way down, glabrous; lobes very broadly deltoid-ovate, mostly much broader than long, subacute or the larger one shortly acuminate, minutely ciliate; corolla nearly 2/3 lin. long, cup-shaped, with incurved lobes, glabrous; lobes scarcely half as long as the tube, broadly deltoid, truncate or very obtuse; stamens 8; filaments at first connate almost or quite up to the anthers, afterwards becoming more or less separated by the enlargement of the ovary, about 1/4 as long as the 1/2 lin. long anthers; ovary 2–3-celled, very minutely puberulous on the upper half; style very short, scarcely any; stigma large, deeply funnel-shaped, with a narrow inflexed margin, glabrous; fruit somewhat compressed or subglobose-trigonous, smooth, minutely puberulous on the upper half. null
