branchlets clothed with a minute white tomentum intermingled with longer hairs; leaves 3-nate, 1/2–1 lin. long including the petiole, 1/3– 2/5 lin. broad, ovate, subacute, flat above, very convex and grooved on the back, very minutely puberulous, serrate-ciliate with 4–5 long simple or branched hairs on each side and often with 2 rows on the back, with 1 at the apex, which is often gland-tipped; flowers 1–3 together, terminal and axillary, sessile; calyx 1/2 lin. long, obconic-campanulate, unequally 4-lobed, glabrous, ciliate with branched hairs; corolla 2/3 lin. long, obconic, 4-angled, with 4 broad apiculate lobes, glabrous; stamens 4, slightly exceeding the corolla, connate; ovary rhomboid-ovate, thinly puberulous on the upper part and on the 1/4 lin. long style and underside of the large crater-like stigma, which scarcely exceeds the anthers. null