Stock woody, emitting one or more stout, erect stems up to 1 m. or more tall; branchlets few, puberulous, becoming glab. Lvs opp., except in floral region, sessile by broad base or very shortly petioled. Lamina of lanceolate order, acute or obtuse, sts of ovate-lanceolate order; 20-40 × 4-12 mm., subcoriac., glab. except sts with pubescence on main veins and margins; margins rather distantly obscurely to distinctly denticulate. Fls ± 15-20 mm. diam.; calyx 8-10 mm. long, pubescent, lobes lanceolate; petals white or pale rose, obcordate, 10-15-(20) mm. long. Capsules (4)-5-10 cm. long; finely, densely pubescent; peduncles ± 10 mm. long. Seeds minutely papillose.

2n = 36

n = 18

n = 18

Robust rhizomatous herb, often well-branched near base and above, ascending 25-140 cm, sometimes forming leafy stolons, strigillose, densely so in the infl. Stems strigillose all round or rarely only on the elevated lines decurrent from margins of petioles. Lamina of lf narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 30-80 × 5-13 mm. Floral tube 1.3-2 mm deep, with a conspicuous ring of long hairs inside. Petals white, often flushed pink or rose-purple, 7.5-14 × 5-10 mm. Capsule grey-strigillose, (4.5)-6.5-9.5 cm long; fruiting pedicel 1-2 cm long.