more than 1 ft. high, branches and branchlets erect, tomentose-pubescent, greyish; leaves 3-nate, erect, imbricate or shorter than the internodes, 3/4–1 2/3 lin. long, linear, subacute, finely and shortly pubescent or puberulous all over, usually with the apical hairs longer than the rest, minutely glandular on the margins when young; flowers very shortly pedicellate or subsessile, in small axillary and terminal clusters, which are more or less crowded along the short lateral branchlets or terminal on very short axillary branchlets scattered along the main branches; bracts 3, unequal, 1/6– 2/5 lin. long, linear, obtuse, puberulous and ciliate with longer hairs; calyx 2/3 lin. long, tubular-oblong, sharply 4-angled, thinly coriaceous, hairy, or the basal third of the tube glabrous; teeth opposite the angles, erect, 1/3 as long as the tube or less, ovate, subacute or obtuse, ciliate with rather long hairs; corolla about 1 1/4 lin. long, tubular, slightly narrowed just at the base, slightly curved, glabrous, the exserted part about as long as the calyx; lobes erect or slightly incurved, rounded, about as long as broad; anthers exserted, basifixed, 1/2 lin. long, linear or the cells slightly diverging with short pendant awn-like spurs at the base; ovary puberulous at the top, 2-celled; stigma obconically thickened. null
