apparently laxly branched; branches and branchlets minutely tomentose or densely woolly-tomentose with longer hairs, becoming subglabrous, white; leaves usually 3- (rarely 4-) nate, erect or ascending, imbricate or shorter than the internodes, 1–2 lin. long, linear, acute, serrulate on the acute edges, softly pubescent on the back, slightly puberulous on the upperside, often with small leafy branchlets or leaf-tufts in their axils; flowers 1–3 together terminating the very short axillary branchlets, subsessile; bracts 3, the middle one longest, 1/3 lin. long, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, the lateral linear-oblong, all subacute or obtuse, ciliate; calyx only seen in a fruiting stage, rigidly coriaceous or fleshy, nearly 1 lin. long, conical-ovoid, 8-ribbed, glabrous; teeth erectly connivent, half or rather more than half as long as the tube, elongate-deltoid, acute, ciliate; corolla 1 3/4 lin. long, the part exserted from the calyx inflated oblong or conical-ovoid, abruptly contracted into a narrow tube within the calyx, oblique or slightly curved, glabrous; lobes connivent, as long as broad, obtuse; anthers not seen; young fruit ellipsoid, minutely puberulous at the top, crustaceous, 2-celled; stigma capitate. null
