rigid, stoutly branched; branchlets minutely tomentose, whitish or pale grey; leaves 3- (rarely 4-) nate, erect or slightly spreading, varying from densely crowded to about equalling the internodes, mostly incurved, 2/3–1 1/2 (rarely 2) lin. long, ovate-lanceolate to linear, serrulate, in the type specimen densely pubescent and mucronate with a very short gland-tipped bristle when young, in others puberulous and simply mucronate or acute or subobtuse, becoming glabrous with age; flowers sessile, usually 3–7 together in small axillary clusters, which are racemosely arranged and often crowded along the upper part of the branchlets, which sometimes grow out beyond them; bracts 3, subequal, 1/3– 1/2 lin. long, ovate or oblong, obtuse, shortly ciliate; calyx 2/3 lin. long, toothed to the middle or beyond, puberulous; tube hemispheric-campanulate, somewhat obscurely 8-ribbed at the flowering stage, enlarging and becoming globose and distinctly 8-ribbed in fruit; teeth erect or very slightly spreading, deltoid-ovate or deltoid-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, thickened at the margins, shortly ciliate; corolla 1 2/3 lin. long, tubular, contracted at the base within the calyx-tube, slightly curved, glabrous, the exserted part much longer than the calyx; lobes short, obtuse, erect; anthers exserted, dorsifixed just above the base, 1/2 lin. long, oblong, not narrowed at the base, with short dorsal awn-like spurs just above the base, sometimes nearly obsolete; ovary seated on a very thick disk, compressed, with a few very minute hairs at the obtuse apex; style 2–3 lin. long; stigma thickened or subcapitate. null
