Stem decumbent, shrubby at the base, branched; branches suberect, flexuose, very slender, terete, hispidulous; leaves alternate, sessile, ovate, 25 mm [as '1 in.'] long, entire, scabrid above, hispid beneath; racemes terminal, branched; flowers minute, very shortly pedicelled, distant; bracts lanceolate, acute; calyx hispid, 5-partite; corolla blue; tube as long as the calyx, throat naked; lobes ovate, obtuse; anthers inserted in the middle of the tube; style included; nutlets 2, ovoid, triangular, muricate.
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