apparently about 1 ft. high; branchlets slender, erect, subparallel to very flexuose, distinctly or very minutely puberulous, sometimes becoming glabrous, pale brown or greyish; leaves 3-nate, varying from adpressed and shorter than the internodes to erectly imbricate, 3/4–3 1/2 lin. long, narrowly linear, acute, glabrous; flowers axillary and terminal, 1–3 (rarely 4–5) together, subsessile; calyx (excluding the long lobe) 1/3– 1/2 lin. long, shorter than the corolla-tube, unequally lobed to the middle or the long lobe nearly free, glabrous; lobes oblong or ovate, acute or subobtuse or the long one acuminate, all minutely ciliate; corolla about 2/3 lin. long, campanulate or subglobose-campanulate, glabrous; stamens 8; filaments about 1/2 as long as the anthers, rarely less, connate for 1/3– 3/4 of their length and sometimes up to (but not with) the base of the anthers, becoming more or less free in fruit and narrower at their apex than the base of the 1/3 to nearly 1/2 lin. long oblong anthers; ovary acutely 2–4-angled on the upper half, 2–4-celled, glabrous; style very short to almost none; stigma deeply funnel-shaped with erect or slightly inflexed sides to the cup, glabrous; fruit distinctly 3–4- (occasionally 2-) angled on the smooth hardened upper half, slightly reticulate-rugulose below. null
