suffruticose, softly pubescent, branched, about 1 ft. high or more, apparently perennial; branches rambling, pale brown, below subterete, puberulous and woody; branchlets opposite or alternate, erect or ascending, rather slender, wiry, pallid, more or less leafy; internodes equalling or rather exceeding the leaves; leaves opposite, broadly ovate or cordiform, mostly obtuse, broadly subcordate or subtruncate at the base, membranous, incise-dentate, subsessile, subamplexicaul, 1/5–1 1/4 in. long and broad; teeth sometimes sparingly toothed; flowers few or somewhat numerous, racemose and axillary, 1/3– 2/5 in. long, white and orange; racemes terminal; pedicels slender, or moderately firm, 1/8– 3/8 in. long, glandular-pubescent, bracteate at the base; bracts smaller than the leaves, similar or lanceolate; calyx glandular-pubescent, deeply 5-lobed, about 1/6– 1/5 in. long; segments narrow from a broader base, subulate, acute; corolla-tube subcylindrical, nearly straight, nearly glabrous, upwards slightly widened and yellow, 3/10– 3/8 in. long, about the middle about 1/20 in. in diam.; limb spreading, pallid above, about 1/5– 1/4 in. in diam.; lobes 5, oval-oblong, rounded, entire, 1/12– 1/10 in. long; throat minutely glandular; stamens glabrous, just included or two partly exserted; anthers reniform; style equalling the corolla-tube, glabrous; capsules ovoid, obsoletely glandular, 1/16– 1/6 in. long. null
