a densely much-branched shrublet 1–1 1/2 ft. high; branchlets puberulous; leaves 3-nate, erect or ascending, 1/2–1 lin. long with the petiole, linear, subacute or obtuse, glabrous or minutely puberulous, often at first tipped with a few fine hairs; flowers axillary or terminating exceedingly short axillary branchlets, 1–3 together, sessile or subsessile; calyx obconic, 3-angled and unequally 3-lobed, rarely imperfectly 4-lobed, glabrous or puberulous on the angles, ciliate on the lobes; tube 1/8– 1/4 lin. long, transparent between the angles, lobes 1/8– 1/4 lin. long, linear, obtuse; corolla 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, urceolate, 3-lobed, ovoid-inflated, broadest (1/4 lin. in diam.) slightly above the middle, contracted at the base, but scarcely so or not at all below the lobes, varying from nearly or quite glabrous to puberulous nearly all over; lobes 1/5– 1/4 lin. long, oblong or ovate-oblong, very obtuse, erect or slightly connivent; stamens 3, included; filaments free, slender; anthers connate, less than 1/4 lin. long, subquadrate, shortly and obtusely bifid; ovary narrowly ovoid, tapering into the style which is puberulous at the apex; stigma just exserted from the corolla, broadly funnel-shaped. null
