Descr. — A glabrous shrub several feet high, with robust 

 stems, branches, and branchlets, the youngest shoots 

 minutely puberulous. Leaves spreading and deflexed, 

 three to four inches long, oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or 

 oblanceolate, obtuse, apiculate, base acute or cuneate, 

 margins recurved; nerves 12 to 15 pairs, very slender; 

 upper surface convex, bright green, under pale green, with 

 very slender nerves and reticulating nervules ; petiole very 

 short. Flowers many, in terminal heads, very shortly 

 pedicelled ; bracts \ to f inch long, oblong," concave, 

 yellow brown, tips ciliate. Pedicel very glandular. Calyx 

 cupular, glandular, obscurely 5-lobed, the lobes ciliate. 

 Curolla one and a half inch long, rather narrowly cam- 

 panulate, tube white, with 5 furrows and as many gibbosi- 

 ties at the retuse base ; lobes 5, short, rounded, spreading 

 and recurved, suffused with rose. Stamens 10, filaments 

 glabrous, anthers shortly oblong. Ovary conical, ten- 

 furrowed and ten-celled, minutely glandular ; style strict, 

 sparsely glandular from the base to the tip, stigma small. 



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