a: 
An undershrub, erect, slender, with round, villous 
branches. Leaves ovate-oblong, bluntish, flat, 3-nerved, 
imbricated in four rows, ciliate, sessile, villous at the base; 
the old ones nearly smooth on both sides (with a very thin, 
closely pressed, pubescence); the nerves naked. Flowers 
terminal, yellow, longer than the leaves, with long, spread- 
ing, close hairs; those of the ovarium white, of the corolla 
blackish. Tube slender, curved, a little thickened up- 
wards. Limb spreading, 4-cleft: the divisions oval, smooth 
inside. Scales 8, in pairs, small, erect, at the base of the 
divisions. Stamens 8, erect, ovate, in two rows, nearly. 
sessile; the four in the upper row exserted, those in the 
lower row included. Style shorter than the tube, rising no 
higher than the lower set of stamens. Stigma acute, rather 
hairy. 
a J.L. 
