apparently about 1 ft. high or less, compactly branched; branchlets erect, flexuose, puberulous; leaves 3-nate, usually erect or imbricate, spreading where there are flowers or young shoots in their axils, 1 1/4–2 1/4 lin. long, linear, acute, glabrous; flowers 1–3 together, axillary and terminal, subsessile; calyx (excluding the larger lobe) 1/3– 1/2 lin. long, shorter than the corolla-tube, lobed to half-way down, puberulous; corolla 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, cup-shaped, puberulous, green; stamens 8; filaments 1/2– 2/3 as long as the anthers, sometimes broken off shorter in fruit, at first more or less connate to half-way up or beyond, becoming separated in fruit and narrower at the apex than the base of the 1/4– 2/5 lin. long ovate-oblong or oblong anthers; ovary distinctly puberulous, 2-celled; style very short; stigma with a funnel-shaped base and erect sides to the cup, 1/3 as deep as its breadth, puberulous on the underside; fruit somewhat compressed or subglobose, puberulous on the upper half, slightly reticulately wrinkled below. null
