Roella dunantii A.Dc.

A small low-growing often prostrate plant with much branched stems, the branches erect or prostrate. Stems rarely over 25 cm. long, the younger hairy and with crowded squarrose leaves. Leaves 4-7 mm. long, linear, flat, glabrous except for stout cilia near the base, soon deciduous but with axillary tufts of small leaves. Flowers aggregated or solitary. Bracts numerous, broader than the leaves, flat or obtusely bulged below, densely ciliate with stout white hairs. Calyx lobes 5-8 mm. long, flat, glabrous externally, densely hairy inside, ciliate at the base, often with 1 or 2 pairs of pinnate teeth near the tip. Corolla 0-7-1 cm. long, pale blue or white, usually concolorous but occasionally with small blue dots on the lobes, the lobes as long as or longer than the tube. Disc flat. Ovary hairy.