a small shrublet, 1–2 ft. high; branchlets minutely whitish-tomentose; leaves 3-nate, adpressed or erect, 2–4 1/2 lin. long with the petiole, linear, obtuse, flat above, convex on the back, glabrous, not ciliate; flowers 1–3 together on minute peduncle-like axillary branchlets 0– 1/3 lin. long or terminal, forming small elongated clusters at the ends of the branches; pedicels minute, 1/8 lin. long; bracts 3, adpressed to the calyx, equal or unequal, linear, obtuse, ciliate with exceedingly minute glands; calyx nearly 1/2 lin. long, 4-lobed to 2/3 of the way down, glabrous; lobes ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtusely pointed, very minutely ciliate like the bracts; corolla 1 1/4 lin. long, ovoid-oblong, slightly narrowed at the mouth, glabrous, pinkish-white (Thunberg); lobes very small, quadrate, truncate, erect; anthers partly (or wholly?) exserted, rather more than 1/2 lin. long, linear-oblong, spurred at the base, scabrid; spurs free, awn-like, 1/4 as long as the anther; ovary ellipsoid, glabrous; style 1 1/2 lin. long; glabrous; stigma obconically thickened, truncate. null
