An undershrub, erect, slender, with round, villous 

 branches. Leaves ovate-oblong, bluntish, flat, 3-nerved, 

 iinbncated in four rows, ciliate, sessile, villous at the base ; 

 the old ones nearly smooth on both sides (with a very thin, 

 closely pressed, pubescence) ; the nerves naked. Flowers 

 terminal, yellow, longer than the leaves, with long, spread- 

 ing, close hairs ; those of the ovarium white, of the corolla 

 blackish. Tube slender, curved, a little thickened up- 

 wards. lAmb spreading, 4-cleft : the divisions oval, smooth 

 inside. Scales 8, in pairs, small, erect, at the base of the 

 divisions. Stamens 8, erect, ovate, in two rows, nearly 

 sessile; the four in the upper row exserted, those in the 

 lower row included. Style shorter than the tube, rising no 

 higher than the lower set of stamens. Stigma acute, rather 

 hairy. 



J.L. 



