an undershrub, intricately branched, softly glandular-pulverulent, somewhat viscid, drab, about 8 in. high; branches woody, mostly leafless, a little bent at the nodes; branchlets alternate, divaricate, rigid, rather slender, the shorter sometimes subspinescent; leaves alternate, soon deciduous, obovate-cuneate, broadly ovate, or subrhomboidal, obtuse, more or less wedge-shaped or subtruncate at the base, toothed or excisely dentate except at the base, thick, rather fleshy, shortly petiolate, about 1/10– 1/4 in. long by 1/12– 1/5 in. broad; flowers about 1/5– 1/4 in. long, racemose; racemes numerous, terminal, short, few-flowered; pedicels 1/6– 3/8 in. long, rather firm, somewhat curved; calyx glandular-papillose outside, smooth and veined inside, firm, 5-cleft rather below the middle, about 1/8 in. long; lobes ovate, subacute or subobtuse; corolla very thinly membranous, glabrous, obsoletely glandular, veined; tube about 1/5 in. long, lower half subcylindrical, 1/30– 1/24 in. in diam., upper part ventricosely dilated, much curved, about 1/8 in. in diam. at the top; limb oblique, about 3/8 in. broad, spreading; lobes rounded, entire, 1/8– 1/6 in. long; stamens included, glabrous; anthers reniform, roundish, 1/40 in. broad; filaments 1/20– 1/16 in. long; ovary ovoid-conical, minutely and inconspicuously glandular, 1/24 in. long; style straight, slightly clavate upwards, somewhat glandular, 1/12 in. long. null
