apparently suffruticose and branched; branches subvirgate, purplish, puberulous all round, leafy, rigid, moderately robust; hairs whitish; leaves opposite, sometimes quasifasciculate, oval, rounded or obtuse, shortly narrowed at the subsessile base, dentate, firmly membranous, hispidulous beneath, subscabrid, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, 5/16– 1/2 in. broad; flowers numerous, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, cymose; cymes terminal, rather compact, oblong, leafy towards the base, compound, many-flowered, 6–8 in. long; ultimate pedicels puberulous, 1/24– 1/6 in. long; bracts small, oblong or subulate; calyx viscid-pubescent, 5-cleft scarcely half-way down, 1/8– 1/7 in. long in flower, 1/6 in. long in fruit; lobes lanceolate or subulate, acute; corolla marcescent; tube cylindrical-funnel-shaped, sparingly and minutely glandular outside, somewhat curved above, 1/5– 1/4 in. long; throat glabrous; limb spreading, about 1/4 in. in diam.; lobes oblong, truncate-rounded, entire, 1/12– 1/10 in. long; one pair of anthers exserted, the other included; style exserted; capsules oval-oblong, glabrous, 1/8 in. long. null
