Roella triflora (R.D.Good) Adamson

Usually erect. Stems hairy, with ascending branches usually in groups, either from the base or from near the top. Leaves ascending or incurved, short, 3-6 mm. long, fiat, narrowed from the base to the tip, acute, often covered with very short hairs, usually with distant pinnate teeth, the midrib below more than three-quarters the width of the leaf. Axillary tufts of small leaves usually present. Flowers solitary or in groups of 2 or 3, the groups sometimes clustered. Bracts many, covered with very short hairs, 5-6 mm. long, with long narrow pinnate teeth in the upper part and short cilia in the lower. Bracts green when the flower opens but soon becoming brown and dry. Calyx lobes covered with short hairs on the back, much longer than the bracts, 0-5-1 cm. long, broadly lanceolate or ovatedanceolate, acute, with linear pinnate teeth. Corolla 1-1-5 cm. long, campanulate, pale blue with a dark band at the base, the lobes as long as or slightly longer than the tube. Style hairy. Disc cupdike. Ovary hairy. Calyx lobes at the fruting stage enlarged and usually red or reddish.