an undershrub, 3/4–2 1/2 ft. high; branches erect or procumbent, glabrous and ashy below, papillose or glandular-puberulous above; branchlets alternate, opposite or quasi-fasciculate, rather slender and leafy; leaves spathulate or narrowly oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowed to the sessile or subsessile base, entire, or with a few small teeth towards the apex, rather thick, glabrous or more or less glandular-papillose, opposite or fasciculate with abbreviated axillary leafy shoots, 1/6– 1/2 in. long; flowers axillary and racemose, rather numerous, chocolate-brown, 3/4–1 in. long; pedicels rather slender, 1/3–1 in. long; calyx papillose, deeply 5-lobed, 1/2– 1/7 in. long; segments broadly linear, obtuse; corolla-tube cylindrical, slender, curved and somewhat dilated near the apex, sparingly glandular-papillose outside, 2/3– 7/8 in. long; limb spreading, about 1/2 in. in diam.; lobes oval-oblong, about 1/5– 1/4 in. long, entire or nearly so; stamens included; capsules ovoid-oval, pallid, glabrous, 1/5– 1/3 in. long. null
