Plant 1 1/2 ft. high. Branches puberulous. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, puberulous, or glabrous, 3–6 lin. long. Racemes short, loosely arranged along the branches. Bracts oblong, obtuse, ciliate at the base, 1 lin. long. Flowers subsessile. Calyx campanulate, puberulous, 5-lobed, 3/4 lin. long; lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, ciliate, divided almost to the base, two lower rather longer than the upper. Corolla-tube 1 1/2 lin. long; lobes rounded-oblong, a third as long as the tube. Fruit broadly ovoid-globose, somewhat compressed, 3/4 lin. long.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; in thickets on hills around Lopollo, common, Welwitsch, 4788!
