Jamesbrittenia albanensis Hilliard

Twiggy shrublet, branches up to c. 450 mm long, erect, decumbent or spreading, glandular-pubescent, hairs up to 0.15-0.3 mm long, very leafy. Leaves opposite becoming alternate on the flowering twiglets, pseudofasciculate, largest primary leaves 4-15 x 1.5-8 mm, spathulate to ovate in outline tapering into a petiolar part up to nearly half total leaf length, lobed from 2/3 to whole way to midrib, lobes oblong to spathulate, obtuse, sometimes entire, the larger ones often few-toothed to almost bipinnatisect, both surfaces glandular-pubescent, hairs up to 0.15-0.3 mm long, glistening glands as well, mainly on lower surface. Flowers solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, these much reduced in size, the inflorescence thus racemose. Pedicels up to c. 10-23 mm long. Calyx tube 0.1-0.2 mm long, lobes 2.3-3.4 x 0.5-0.7 mm, ± oblong, densely glandular-pubescent, hairs up to 0.15-0.4 mm long, glistening glands as well. Corolla tube 7.5-10 x 1.8-2.2 mm in throat, cylindric, abruptly expanded near apex, limb oblique, 9-14 mm across lateral lobes, posticous lobes 5-8 x 2.8-3.7 mm, anticous lobe 4.5-6.5 x 2.8-3.2 mm, all lobes oblong-cuneate, truncate to retuse, glandular-pubescent outside, hairs up to 0.2-0.25 mm long, glistening glands as well mainly on backs of lobes, transverse band of clavate hairs in throat extending very briefly onto base of lower lip, lobes shades of purple-pink and mauve, throat probably yellow/orange. Stamens: posticous filaments 1-2 mm long, anthers 0.6-1.1 mm, anticous filaments 0.5-1 mm, anthers 0.4-0.7 mm, all filaments puberulous. Stigma c. 0.2 mm long. Style 4.8-7.4 mm. Ovary 1.8-2 x 0.8-1 mm. Capsule 5-7 x 3 mm, glistening glands on sutures, minute glandular hairs sometimes present on rest of capsule. Seeds c. 0.6-0.7 x 0.4 mm. Flowering has been recorded in most months.