Descr. Shrub (five feet high) erect, with pendulous 
branches, twigs covered with brownish pubescence, hairs 
adpressed, attached by the middle. Leaves elliptical or 
obovato-elliptical, mucronulate, spreading, having adpress- 
ed pubescence, similar to that on ‘the twigs on both sides, 
but silky and chiefly abundant below, lateral nerves near 
the margins. Racemes short, dense, terminal, becoming 
lateral, and opposite to the leaves, from the prolongation of 
the branches. Bractee subulate, falling very early. Flowers 
rose-coloured, geminate, on recurved pedicels, the lowest 
expanding first ; perianth pubescent on the outside, four- 
_ phyllous, united in the throat by a dense tuft of white wool, 
less than half the length of the revolute limb, which on the 
inside is glabrous. Stamens small, white, sessile in the 
apices of the perianth. Pistil pedicellate, including the 
pedicel less than eight lines long, surrounded at its base on 
the lower side by a pale, semfunar disk, everywhere gla- 
brous except at the top of the style, where it is slightly 
pubescent: stigma oblique, flat ; germen green, obscurely 
furrowed above and below. Graham. 
