Suffrutescent or woody, up to 2 m. tall, often blooming when young and herbaceous, the stem and foliage densely hirsute or villous throughout; petioles none, or up to 3 cm. long, usually manifest but short; leaf-blades thick, oblong-lanceolate to broadly elliptic, commonly 6-12 cm. long and about half as wide, obtuse to short-acuminate, at base cuneate to subcordate, 5-pli-nerved; flowers few, sessile in dense axillary glomerules, 4-merous; hypanthium cylindric, 3-4 mm. long; exterior teeth triangular below, narrowed to a short, divergent, subulate tip, equaling or slightly exceeding and more or less concealing the sepals; petals obovate-oblong, 2-3 mm. long, white or pinkish; anthers subulate, 3-4 mm. long.
Moist or wet thickets, savannahs, or on dry, sterile soils in pine or pine-oak forest and on open slopes; at elevations up to 1,500 metres, but mainly at lower levels.
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