about 8–12 in. high, compactly much branched; branchlets erect, finely pubescent or puberulous; leaves 4–5-nate, usually less than 1 lin. long, incurved-erect, shorter than or slightly exceeding the internodes, often giving a somewhat beaded appearance to the branches, ovate, acute, varying from smooth and glabrous to minutely scabrid and shortly pubescent on the back, usually ciliate; flowers in terminal heads 3–4 lin. in diam., subsessile; bracts 0, except the floral leaves; calyx 2/3 lin. long, cuneate, acutely 3-angled, 3-toothed, somewhat rigidly coriaceous, but not thick, reddish-brown with a whitish stripe between the angles; tube glabrous or with a few hairs in the grooves between the angles; teeth half as long as the tube, alternating with the angles, erect, broadly deltoid, acute, ciliate to entirely without cilia; corolla 3-lobed, 1 3/4–2 1/4 lin. long, tubular, gradually tapering from or below the middle to the slender base, the exserted part more than twice as long as the calyx, glabrous, pink (Bolus); lobes much broader than long, rounded, erect; stamens 3; anthers much exserted, basifixed, 1/3– 2/3 lin. long, cuneate, bipartite, spurless; ovary glabrous; stigma simple. null
