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Leaves 1·2-2·2 x 0·25-0·9 cm., oblong to elliptic, obtuse at apex, entire and not ciliate at margin, not contracted, sessile and slightly connate at the base, spreading or erect-spreading, seeming to have been flat in living state, neither very thin (but not membranous) nor rigid on drying, with an indumentum on both faces as that of the branches and on account of this greyish or whitish.
Flowers 5-merous, sessile or very shortly pedicellate, in condensate small cymes, forming 3-furcate, up to 2·8 cm. in diam. corymbs at the end of the main branches, or only a cyme at the end of the branchlets; peduncles 4-5·8 cm. long, slender, densely hispid, with 2-3 pairs of small (up to 0·5 cm. long), oblong, hispid bracts; pedicels absent or up to 0·5 mm. long, thick.
Corolla 3-3·25 mm. long, campanulate, white; petals oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded at the apex, erect below, reflexed or spreading upwards, minutely scabrid-papillose on the outside at the upper i and with a small mucro just below the apex.
Calyx 1·6-2 mm. long, equalling to slightly longer than the half of the corolla; sepals ovate to triangular, obtuse or nearly so, connate at base for ± 0·75 mm., hispid outside, ciliate at the margin.
Follicles c. 1-5 mm., not or shortly attenuate; stigmas subterminal, nearly sessile.
Scales c. 0·5 mm. long, cuneate, truncate or slightly emarginate at the apex.
Filaments 1-1·25 mm. long; anthers 0·4-0·6 mm., suborbicular, purple.
A perennial herb (or undershrub?).
