Stem 2-4 feet high or more, round, green, angularly 
striated, slightly flexuose, roughishly pubescent, with small 
decurved bristles along the nerves. Leaves sessile, scattered, 
wideset, broad, oblong, lanceolate, long-pointed, gradually 
decreasing to very small ones, nerved, unevenly serrate, 
with glandularly headed teeth, varicosely nerved beneath, 
setaceously pubescent at the margin and along the nerves. 
Flowers in a leafy panicle; peduncles axillary and terminal, 
solitary, numerous, trichotomously cymose, angularly striate, 
hispid, uprightly spread, decrescent, generally 7-flowered ; 
pedicles, except the middle one of each trichotomy, with 
small leafy bractes. Calyx green, patent, equal to the 
tube of the corolla; leaflets ovately lanceolate, pointed, 
herbaceous, thin, nerved, continuous with the germen, 
setaceously pubescent at the nerves, serrate, a small red 
gland heading every tooth. Corolla broadly campanulate, 
blueish white, or grey, rather less than an inch in depth, 
patent, villous on the inside below; tube twice as short as 
the limb; segments of the limb elliptic, nerved, somewhat 
pointed, point short. | Germen green, short, turbinate, 
angles 3-nerved, trilocular, loculaments with many ovules: 
epigynous disk or basement almost level, marked with a 
circle of obsoletely prominent nodules. Style short thick, 
columnar, smooth; stigmas 3, pale-coloured, longer than 
the style, thickly laminar, ovally oblong, turbinately con- 
flectent below, revolutely reflectent above. Filaments short, 
upright, wideset, subulately tapered from a very shallowly 
dilated base, reflectent at the middle: anthers yellow, up- 
right, at first converging, ultimately diverging to behind 
the back of the filaments. 
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