A low shrub, 1-2 ft. high, with stems erect, villous in the young parts, frequently un-branched; leaves crowded, in whorls of 4-6, erect or spreading, with incurved mucronate apex, narrowed at the base, glabrous, 3-5 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad; spike ovoid or ovoid-cylindric, 7-12 lin. long, 5-8 lin. in diam., with a silky-pubescent axis; flowering bract lanceolate, sheathing below, puberulous, 2 1/2 lin. long, 1/2-3/4 lin. broad; bracteoles narrowly lanceolate, falcate, slightly keeled, villous along the margins above the middle, 2 1/4 lin. long, 1/4-1/2 lin. broad; calyx tubular, cartilaginous, brown, glabrous, 5-toothed; tube distinctly 5-nerved, 1 1/2 lin. long; teeth narrowly deltoid, acute, with thickened villous margins and a single median nerve, 1/2 lin. long, 1/4-1/3 lin. broad at the base; corolla-tube glabrous without, puberulous within above the middle, 2 lin. long; lobes linear, 3-nerved, glabrous, 2 lin. long, 1/3 lin. broad; stamens 2 1/2-3 lin. long; style 1 1/2-5 lin. long.
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Erect, resprouting shrublet to 1.2 m, with velvety branches. Leaves imbricate, ascending to spreading, linear, in whorls of 4-6, 2-grooved below, recurved at tips, mucronate. Flowers in ovoid spikes, white, calyx cartilaginous, corolla hairy in throat.
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