Roella bryoides H.Buek

A slender erect or sprawling woody shrublet, 25-40 cm. high, with ascending branches. Stems ridged, coarsely hairy. Leaves short, 3-6 mm. long, usually squarrose, the older reflexed, ciliate at the base, usually with axillary fascicles of smaller leaves. Flowers solitary, most often on short branches. Bracts leaf-like but rigid, more strongly ciliate, keeled below, toothed at the top. Calyx lobes rigid, flat, usually glabrous, 6-7 mm. long, acuminate, with a pair of almost pungent teeth near the tip. Corolla white or pale blue, 0-8-1 cm. long, the lobes about as long as the tube. Ovary hairy.