Descr. A shrub; branches many from the root, ascend- 
ing and recurved, very slender, spreading on all sides, and 
as well as the petioles and branches of the inflorescence, 
clothed with rather long spreading hairs. . Leaves one to 
one and a half inches long, opposite, shortly petioled, 
ovate-cordate, acute or acuminate, hairy beneath, bright 
deep green. Heads of flowers globose, as large as the fist, 
dense. Flowers shortly pedicelled, white, one and a quarter 
inches in diameter, sweet-scented. Oalyz teeth subulate, 
half as long as the corolla-tube. Corolla-tube two-thirds of 
an inch long; lobes about nine, elliptic-lanceolate, acute. 
—J.D. H. 
Fig. 1, flower cut longitudinally; 2, calyx; 3, stamen; 4, stamens and lip ot 
style and stigma; 5, stigma :—all but figs. 1 and 2 enlarged. 
