"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".

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.

n = 20

n = 20

n = 20

2n = 80

n = 20

2n = 80