Much-branched shrub 1-6 m. tall. Branchlets rather slender, hairy-pubescent, length of internodes c. 2-4 × diam. Lvs suberect to spreading, sts almost distichous, 1-3 cm. × 3-6 mm., narrow-lanceolate to obovate-oblong, subcoriac.; lf-bud with long narrow sinus; lamina glab., narrowly acute, margins slightly thickened, us. with 1 to several pairs of narrow incisions. Infls lateral, compound, branches often as many as 5-6 all of first order, several adjacent infls together forming a flat-topped corymbose head projecting above lvs; peduncle us. < lvs, finely hairy pubescent. Pedicels 2-5 mm. long, much > narrow-ovate ciliolate bracts. Calyx-lobes c. 1·5 mm. long, ± ovate, obtuse, ciliolate, anterior lobes us. fused for most of their length. Corolla white or bluish, tube 2-2.5 mm. long, lobes 3-4 mm. long, ovate, subacute. Capsule erect, 4-5 × 2.5-3 mm., acute, glab., c. 3 × calyx.

2n = 24