Biennial or perennial herb (base unknown), at least 75 cm high. Stem with several elongate branches, covered with short, appressed, usually retrorse hairs. Basal leaves not known, stem leaves sessile, acute, linear-lanceolate, covered by short, strigillose, antrorse hairs on the upper, by similar, irregularly directed hairs on the lower side, nerves more or less distinct on lower side only, middle ones 10-12 cm long, 1.5 cm wide, tapering towards base, upper ones 2.5-5.5 cm long, 0.5-1.5 cm wide, semiam-plexicaulous. Cymes elongate after flower, ebracteate; pedicels 1.5 mm long in flower (at top of cyme), up to 5 mm in fruit (near base). Calyx 2.5 mm long in flower, 3(-3.5) mm in fruit, strigillose with antrorse hairs, lobes free to base, ovate, up to 2 mm wide, subacute. Corolla funnel-to salver-shaped, with bluish veins on whitish ground, 3.5-4 mm long, 7 mm in diam., tube about as long as calyx, lobes oblong-obovate, rounded, c. 2 mm long, glabrous; fornices sub-trapeziform to sub-quadrate, involute and emargi-nate at apex. Stamens: anthers ovoid or ellipsoid, 1 mm long, subsessile. Pistil, style 0.8 mm in flower, c. 2.5 mm in fruit, without distinct stigma. Nutlets ovate in outline, shining castaneous brown, glochids dense and confluent at base at margins, more or less evenly distributed on dorsal and ventral surfaces, areola small, subapical.
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