Much-branched spreading shrub c. 1 m. tall. Branchlets medium with sparse short hairy pubescence mostly confined to bifarious bands, length of internodes c. 3 × diam., older branches red-brown. Lvs spreading, deflexed, c. 3-5 cm. × 4-9 mm., narrow-lanceolate, rather thin but ± glaucous; lf-bud without sinus, lf-base broad; lamina tapering to subacute tip, glab., entire, margin smooth, cartilaginous, midrib evident. Infls lateral, simple, c. 6 cm. long, us. tapering; peduncle c. 1·5 cm. long, slender, hairy-pubescent. Bracts 1·5-2 mm. long, narrow, ciliolate, not opp., pedicels to 3-4 mm. long. Calyx-lobes to 2 mm. long, narrow, subacute, ciliolate. Corolla white, tube c. 3 mm. long, lobes shorter, rounded, incurved. Capsule c. 4 × 2 mm., erect, ± pointed, glab.