suffruticose below, subherbaceous above; stems or branches virgate, viscid-puberulous, terete, brown, leafy, erect or ascending, 1–1 3/4 ft. high; branchlets alternate, short, leafy, viscid-pubescent, dusky when dried; leaves mostly alternate, quasi-fasciculate, obovate, obtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, glandular-hispidulous, rather thickly herbaceous, turning dusky when dried, incise-dentate, 1/3– 2/3 in. long, 1/10– 1/5 in. broad; midrib and alternate lateral veins narrowly impressed above, raised beneath; petioles 1/12– 1/8 in. long, glandular-hispidulous; flowers racemose, numerous, 1/5– 2/3 in. long; pedicels 2/5– 3/5 in. long, densely glandular-puberulous, rather slender in flower and firm in fruit; calyx 1/5– 1/4 in. long, deeply lobed, densely glandular-hispidulous, dusky when dried; segments broadly linear, obtuse; corolla-tube subcylindrical, narrowly funnel-shaped and gibbous above, hispid outside with gland-tipped setæ, 1/5– 2/3 in. long, 1/10 in. in diam. above, 1/20 in. below; limb spreading, 3/8– 1/2 in. in diam.; obovate-oblong, 1/6– 1/5 in. long, rounded or subtruncate, entire; stamens included; capsules ovoid-conical, subacute, glandular-papillose, 1/5– 1/3 in. long, 1/12– 1/7 in. broad; style filiform, persistent on the young fruit and then about 1/2 in. long, glabrous. null
