probably dwarf, rigidly branched; branchlets puberulous, whitish or pale greyish; leaves 3-nate, erect or ascending, imbricate or shorter than the internodes, 2/3–1 1/2 lin. long, linear, acute or obtuse, with or without a minute simple or gland-tipped apiculus, glabrous and smooth or slightly scabrid-tuberculate on the back, or puberulous with or without an admixture of a few minute gland-tipped hairs on the back and margins; flowers sessile, 1–7 together in lateral or terminal clusters; bracts 3, unequal or subequal, 1/3– 1/2 lin. long, linear to narrowly ovate, obtuse or subacute, minutely ciliate; calyx nearly or quite 1 lin. long, subtubular or campanulate-tubular, at first of about equal diameter throughout, becoming conical-ovoid and contracted at the mouth in fruit, fleshy, rigidly so in fruit, 8-ribbed, glabrous or minutely puberulous; teeth 1/2– 3/4 as long as the tube, erect, somewhat elongated-deltoid, acute, very minutely and indistinctly ciliate with hairs or with sessile glands; corolla 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long, tubular, much narrowed downwards within the calyx, glabrous; lobes scarcely as long as broad, rounded, apparently incurved or connivent; anthers exserted, dorsifixed near the base, linear-oblong, dorsally spurred at the insertion of the filament; spurs awn-like, 1/6– 1/2 as long as the cells; ovary subglabrous or very minutely puberulous at the top; stigma minute, thickened or subcapitate; fruit ellipsoid, crustaceous. null
