A strigosely pubescent shrub; branches opposite, axillary, 
upright, 2-furrowed, and of a deeper green at the edges of 
the furrows. Leaves opposite, decussately wideset, ovally 
lanceolate, spreading, 3-nerved, with a short stiff decum- 
bent fur: petioles short, strigose, connected on each side 
by a slight ridge bearing a line of longish outstretched 
bristles. Cymes terminal, few (5) flowered, with a kind of 
4-leaved involucre, bracteate, with white or pinkish subses- 
sile flowers of about an inch or an inch and a half in dia- 
meter. Calyx green, half 4 or 5-cleft; tube muricated on 
the outside, spines green spreading and radiately compound; 
segments ovately oblong, taper-pointed, fringed, nearly of 
the length of tube, surmounted by a long simple seta, 
separated by a spine in the fork of each division, other- 
wise smooth and without nerves. Petals 4-5, broadly obo- 
vate, cuneately tapered downwards, fringed at the upper 
edge. Stamens 8-10, shorter than the corolla: anthers li- 
nearly tapered, deep yellow, stained with purple on the 
inner side, beakless, perforated at the top, loculaments 2 
adhering to the front of the receptacle which turns up and 
is didymously protuberant at the base. Germen smooth, 
4-5-celled surmounted by 3-10 setze at the end round the 
base of the style, 2 setze being allotted to each cell; style 
green cylindrical, slightly curved. 
