a small very dwarf plant, 4–6 in. high; branches erect, flexuose, clothed with a fine pubescence intermingled with longer gland-tipped hairs; leaves 3-nate, ascending or spreading, 3/4–1 1/4 lin. long with the petiole, 1/4– 1/3 lin. broad, oblong-linear, obtuse, turgidly biconvex, puberulous, ciliate with about 3 long gland-tipped hairs on each side, with 1 at the apex and a few on the back; flowers in small heads or clusters of 3–6 terminating exceedingly short lateral branchlets of the main branches, sessile; calyx 1/2 lin. long, broadly obconic or funnel-shaped, subequalling the corolla, somewhat unequally 4-lobed, puberulous; lobes ovate, acute, all ciliate with long gland-tipped hairs; corolla 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, funnel-shaped-campanulate, very shortly 4- (occasionally 5-) lobed, puberulous on the upper part; lobes broadly deltoid, erect, twice as broad as long, subacute, very minutely denticulate; stamens 4 (occasionally 5), at maturity slightly exceeding the corolla; filaments connate into a membranous tube which extends half-way up the sides of the anthers and connects them together; anthers 2/5 lin. long, subquadrate, with a triangular notch at the minutely scabrid apex; ovary slightly obovoid, minutely puberulous at the top, rather abruptly contracted into the slender puberulous 1/2 lin. long style; stigma exserted 1/3– 1/2 lin. beyond the anthers, large, broadly crater-like. null
