Small, erect, sparingly branched shrub. Branchlets glab. to minutely pubescent, length of internodes several × diam. Lvs spreading, c. 4-8 cm. × 5-7 mm., linear-lanceolate, subcoriac.; lf-bud without sinus; lamina gradually tapering to narrow obtuse tip, entire, glab. except for minute hairs on margin and above midrib. Infls lateral, simple, us. > lvs, peduncle 1-2 cm. long. Bracts to 3 mm. long, linear, acute, pubescent, pedicel longer. Calyx-lobes c. 3 mm. long, very narrow and acute, pubescent. Corolla white or faintly lavender, tube broad, < calyx, lobes > tube, acute. Capsule c. 3 × 2.5 mm., broadly rounded, little > calyx.

n = 20

2n = 40