"An erect glabrous shrub 2-4 ft. high or more". Branchlets "stout, often purplish red when young", glab., length of internodes 2-4-(6) × diam. Lvs "suberect or spreading", 2.5-3·5 × 1-1·5 cm., oblong or elliptic-oblong, thick and coriac., ± fleshy; lf-bud without sinus, the lf-base rounded; lamina obtuse, glab., entire, margin cartilaginous, midrib neither deeply sunken above nor prominent below. Infls lateral, simple, us. tapering, 7-10 cm. long; peduncle us. 2-3 cm. long, hairy-pubescent. Fls rather close, pedicels mostly c. 1 mm. long and ± hidden by broad subacute ciliate bracts; pedicel and rather well-developed calyx-base with evenly spaced retrorse cilia. Calyx-lobes c. 2 × 1·5 mm., ovate, obtuse, margin membr. with stiff cilia. Corolla-tube 4-5 mm. long, cylindric, rather slender, lobes c. 3 mm. long, broadly rounded. Capsule erect, c. 4 × 2.5 mm., broadly ovate and ± turgid, with scattered short hairs.

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