Roella dregeana A.Dc.

Variable in habit, erect or sprawling, usually slender, with few or many ascending branches. Stems hairy. Leaves short, 3-5 mm. long, ascending or incurved, narrowed from the base to the tip, glabrous above, covered with short hairs below, with distant pinnate teeth, the midrib slightly projecting below. Axillary tufts of small leaves usually present. Flowers solitary or clustered. Bracts numerous, brown and dry, 1-1-5 cm. long, pinnate, narrowed to an acuminate hair dike point, the teeth bristledike, ascending, 3-6 mm. long. Bracts finely ciliate, covered with very short hairs but glabrescent. Calyx lobes longer than the bracts, almost as long as the corolla, lineardanceolate, narrowed to a hair dike point, with few or many bristledike lateral teeth. Calyx covered with very short hairs, at least when young. Corolla pale blue or white, concolorous, 1-1-5 cm. long, the lobes about as long as the tube.