1 ft. or more high, densely or compactly branched; branchlets flexuose, erect, minutely puberulous, becoming glabrous, grey; leaves 3-nate, 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long, erectly imbricate to shorter than the internodes, linear, acute; flowers 1–3 together, axillary and terminal, subsessile or very minutely pedicellate; calyx (excluding the larger lobe) about 3/4 lin. long, obconic, longer than broad, usually as long as the corolla-tube, lobed to half-way down or less, or the larger one more deeply glabrous; lobes linear-oblong, obtuse or acute, ciliate with minute sessile glands; corolla 3/4–1 lin. long, campanulate, glabrous; stamens 8, rarely 6; filaments quite half as long as the anthers, at maturity connate to about the middle; anthers 1/2 lin. long, oblong; ovary minutely and rather thickly puberulous, 2-celled; style 1/6– 1/4 lin. long; stigma funnel-shaped or cup-shaped, about as broad as deep, slightly and minutely puberulous or glabrous on the under side. null
