"A closely branched low shrub". Branchlets stout "marked by a pubescent tract running down from between the leaves and often extending along the leaf-bases," length of internodes 1-2 × diam., older branches dark. Lvs spreading to imbricate, 1·5-2-(3) cm. × 8-15 mm., broad-ovate to oblong, thick and glaucous; lf-bud without sinus, the lf sessile with broad sts subcordate base; lamina broadly to narrowly obtuse, glab., entire, margins bevelled, midrib us. evident. Infls lateral, simple, 3-6 cm. long, broad to top; peduncles < lvs, sparsely villous-pubescent; fls crowded. Bracts 1·5-2.5 mm. long, very narrow, ciliolate, those near base < pedicels. Calyx-lobes 2-3 mm. long, narrow-ovate, subacute, ciliolate. Corolla white, "tube wide, twice as long as calyx, the limb cut into 4 short broad, obtusely rounded lobes". Capsule erect, glab., "ovate or elliptic-ovate, subacute, about 2 × calyx".

n = 20

n = 20

n = 20

2n = 80

n = 20

2n = 80