About 60 cm high, moderately branched. Branchlets and upper parts of branches villous. Leaves mostly 1.5-2 cm long, erect-spreading, lanceolate-linear, obtuse, apiculate, A: concave above, bluntly keeled beneath, scabrid, pilose at the margins, becoming glabrous. Flowers shortly stipitate, in dense spiciform inflorescences 1-5 cm long, 1.5-2 cm wide. Bracteoles usually 4-6, about 6 mm long, clasping the calyx and base of the corolla, ovate, acute, deeply concave, pilose at the margins; the outer pilose on the dorsal keel. Calyx-lobes 0-5 mm long, obtuse or rounded. Petals 0.9-1 cm long, linear-oblong, obtuse, erect-spreading from near the base, deeply concave above, rounded beneath, very pale pink, with a pocket at the base. Anthers about 2 mm long, sagittate, obtuse, reaching to near the tips of the petals: filaments much compressed, stoutly keeled on the inner face. Ovary 1/2 inferior, conical in the upper half: styles reaching to near the tips of the petals, stout, deeply furrowed on the inner face.
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Densely leafy, sparsely branched, coppicing shrub to 1 m. Leaves linear-lanceolate, mostly 15-20 mm long, margins shortly ciliate. Flowers axillary, in subterminal whorls, urceolate, pink, ± 10 mm long.
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