Bushy shrub to 1 m. tall. Branchlets rather slender, very finely, us. bifariously, pubescent, length of internodes several × diam., older stems rather smooth and grey. Lvs patent, 13-16 × 5-6 mm., lanceolate, glaucous, drying darkish brown but not black, stomata ∞ on both surfaces; lf-bud without sinus; lamina narrowed gradually to subacute to acute tip, entire, glab. except for microscopic pubescence on ± bevelled margin. Infls lateral, simple, 2-3 × lf-length; peduncle short, finely pubescent. Bracts < 1 mm. long, ciliolate, < pedicels. Calyx-lobes 1-1·5 mm. long, broad, obtuse, ciliolate on pale membr. border. Corolla white, tube barely = calyx, hairy in the throat, lobes > tube, c. 2.5 mm. long, rounded, spreading. Style and ovary with fine sparse pubescence. Capsule to 5 × 4 mm., narrowly to broadly ovate, subacute, pubescent, > 2 × calyx.

n = 40