An erect shrub with spreading pilose branches. Leafstalks very short, dilated upwards. Leaves 3–4 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. wide, lanceolate, irregularly toothed, rough with simple hairs above, densely stellate-pilose below. Flowers in small extra-axillary clusters along the sides of the branches, forming an elongated, interrupted, leafless raceme. Flower-buds oblong, apiculate, longer than the pedicels. Flowers less than 1/2 in. long. Sepals linear-oblong, apiculate. Petals oblong, shorter than the sepals, ciliated below. Stamens 12. Fruit globose, the size of a pea, 4-valved; valves densely covered with straight, setose, brown prickles, terminated by a white, bent, scarcely hooked point.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Dr. Welwitsch!Niger Upper Guinea Nupe, Barter!
