an erect branched shrub 3 ft. high; branches terete, more or less spreading, hard, sparingly leafy, densely covered with a close yellowish-white tomentum; internodes usually much longer than the leaves; leaves very small, subsessile or shortly petiolate, suborbicular to obovate or oblong-lanceolate, 2–7 lin. long, 1–3 lin. broad, rounded or obtuse, quite entire or few-toothed at the apex, cuneate at the base, more or less covered with stellate hairs on both sides; bracts conspicuous, usually longer than or as long as the calyx; whorls 4–6-flowered, several, distant or close together at the ends of the branches; pedicels about 1 lin. long; calyx campanulate, about 4 1/2 lin. long, very densely yellowish-woolly outside; teeth triangular-lanceolate or triangular-linear, 1 1/2–2 1/4 lin. long, acuminate, not spinescent; corolla yellow, about 5 1/2 lin. long, slightly tomentose outside; tube about 3 1/2 lin. long; upper lip broadly obovate, 1 3/4 lin. long; lower lip 3 lin. long. null