Densely branched shrub up to 6dm high; young stems tawny, the youngest green with tawny stipules and area just below leaves green, soft; nerves pellucid, sunk above and raised beneath; inflorescence few flowered, terminal, dense and subsessile; calyx and corolla in bud greenish cream; fruits green turning through orange to scarlet, possibly the same as M.-R. & T. 8590 In crack of exposed rock in open. Anatomy slide in Jodrell Collection.; See Spirit Collection.; Colonial Office East African Expedition: 1955-6