Presumably a scrambling plant with stems 20–40 cm. long, either glabrous or sparsely to densely covered with spreading white hairs but not prickly; rootstock creeping.. Leaves and stipules in whorls of 6; blades linear to narrowly linear-oblong, 2.3–8 mm. long, 0.5–1.5 mm. wide, ± obtuse at the apex and without an acumen but sometimes terminating in a hair, glabrous or with spreading white hairs, the margins slightly and regularly recurved.. Cymes dense, terminal or axillary, several-flowered; peduncles 2.5–5 mm. long; pedicels 0–2.5 mm. long.. Calyx-tube 0.4–0.5 mm. in diameter, glabrous.. Corolla white to pale pink; tube slightly campanulate, 0.8–1.1 mm. long; lobes ovate, 1.2–1.5 mm. long, 0.9–1 mm. wide, subacute or acute but not acuminate at the apex.. Unripe fruits with cocci 1.5 mm. in diameter, glabrous.. Fig. 59/1–6.
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