A prostrate herb, densely covered, especially on the branches, leaf-stalks, peduncles, sepals and young shoots, with glandular sticky hairs; branches elongated, up to 1 1/2 ft. long, 1/2 to 1 lin. thick, almost simple. Leaves reniform-sub-orbicular in outline, reaching about 1 in. long and broad; lobes very short, rounded, spinous-dentate on both surfaces on the excurrent nerves; the young leaves puberulous, the adult glabrescent, except on the nerves which are yellowish glandular-pubescent beneath, palmately 5–7-nerved; petiole up to 5 lin. long. Peduncle shorter than the petiole, sparsely hirsute with spreading hairs, like the bracts, minute linear bracteoles and sepals; pedicels scarcely exceeding 1 lin. long. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, pale green, 4 lin. long, the 2 outer serrate, the inner smaller, shorter, entire. Corolla 1 in. long and about 9 lin. broad, spreading suddenly from a very short narrow tube, pale dull violet, hirsute with grey spreading hairs. Stamens unequal; anthers linear-sagittate. Ovary and lower part of style densely hairy. Capsule about 3 lin. in diam., pubescent. Seed black, opaque, laxly grey pilosulose.