Small erect or decumbent shrub 0·5-1 m. tall. Branchlets stout, hairy-pubescent, length of internodes c. = diam. Lvs suberect or spreading, c. 2-3 × 1 cm., elliptic-oblong, ± coriac., "often glaucous"; lf-bud us. with small narrow sinus; lamina us. glab., subacute or shortly bluntly mucronate, entire, margins cartilaginous to base. Infls lateral, each us. tripartitely branched, to 4 cm. long, together forming a corymbose head projecting above uppermost lvs; peduncle to 1·5 cm. long, pubescent. Bracts c. 3 mm. long, triangular, ciliolate, pedicels longer at fruiting. Calyx-lobes c. 2 mm. long, broadly ovate, subacute, ciliolate. Corolla pale blue, tube c. 3 mm. long, rather wide, lobes c. 3 × 2-2.5 mm., obtuse. Capsule erect, 4-5 × 3 mm., glab., us. > 2 × calyx.

n = 20 + f