Shrublets up to 60 cm high. Stems fairly stout with prominent horizontal leaf-scars, brownish, ending in racemes which die off but producing side branches below the old inflorescences. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, the older reflexed, younger erect; lamina linear, up to 12 cm long and 5 mm broad, tapering gradually to a filiform tip, margin entire, beset with long-stemmed tentacles tipped with knob-shaped glands; upper surface with small tentacles and long white setae; lower surface glabrous but the raised midrib furnished with a row of short tentacles. Flowers aggregated into terminal racemes bearing 10-12 flowers on short bractiferous pedicels. Sepals linear-subulate, 15 mm long, the tip ending in a tentacle, margin softly hairy. Petals ovate, 15 mm long, apiculate, with a dark base, deciduous. Stamens with the anthers opening by wide slits. Ovary glabrous with 2-4 ovules in each locule, style broadening towards the apex where it forms a wide, flat, papillate stigma. Capsule narrowly ovoid, 1 cm, herbaceous; seeds angled, verrucose, 2-5 mm long, brown. Fig. 29 : 2.