Small erect or somewhat straggling (Niven) shrub branching chiefly at the base, 1/2-2 ft. high; adult branches glabrous; leaves crowded in whorls of 3-5, erect or spreading, abruptly narrowed at the base, truncate or minutely apiculate, glabrous, 1 1/2-3 lin. long, 1/4-1/2 lin. broad; spike erect, cylindric, 1/2-3/4 in. long, 1/4-1/2 in. in diam.; flowering bract lanceolate with revolute margins, pubescent or puberulous, 1 1/2-2 1/2 lin. long; bracteoles linear-subulate, with revolute margins, sheathing towards the base, falcate, acuminate, acute, puberulous, 1 1/2 lin. long; flowers pink; calyx tubular, membranous, 5-toothed, glabrous, silky-puberulous or-pubescent without, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; teeth narrowly deltoid, acute, with thickened villous margins, shorter than the tube; corolla-tube glabrous, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; lobes linear, obtuse, with a single median nerve branching near the apex, glabrous, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; stamens 1 1/4-1 1/3 lin. long; style 1 1/2-3 1/2 lin. long.
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Erect or straggling, resprouting shrublet to 80 cm, with velvety branches. Leaves imbricate, ascending, linear, in whorls of 4, 2-grooved below. Flowers in subglobose spikes, pink, calyx membranous, corolla hairy in throat.
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