posite or subverticillate slender tuberculated branches. Leaves 
copious, half to three-quarters of an inch long, elliptical or sub- 
obovate, very shortly petiolate, entire, obtuse, or more gene¬ 
rally emarginate at the apex. Flowers very numerous, pure 
white, almost concealing the foliage by their number, axillary, 
solitary, scarcely peduncled ( almost sessile). Calyx small, 
sparsely piloso-hispid on the subturbinate side; limb of fine, 
erect, linear subulate segments. Corolla with a very long, 
narrow, slightly curved, almost filiform tube , slightly dilated 
upwards ; limb an inch across, oblique, scarcely two-lipped, the 
5 segments ovate, very patent. Anthers small, purple, scarcely 
exserted. Stigma biglobose. 
