Small rupestral shrub, branches 15-30 cm. long, erect to straggling. Branchlets pubescent with short ± retrorse hairs, internodes short or long. Lvs erecto-patent, 6-25 × 2.5-8 mm., spathulate, tapering into narrow but ill-defined petiole; lamina glab., coriac., not keeled; margins serrate, often reddish. Infl. 2-6 cm. long, terminal, us. compound, the lateral spikes subtended by progressively smaller lvs; peduncles elongating in fr. Fls crowded and almost sessile. Bracts 1·5-3 mm. long, broad, ciliate, sts pubescent at base. Calyx-lobes little > bracts, similarly ciliate. Corolla lavender-coloured to almost white, tube < calyx, lobes > tube, 2-3·5 mm. long, ovate. Capsule erect, to 3·5 mm. long, very turgid, ± didymous, us. glab.; seeds ± spindle-shaped, slightly winged.

Branches often procumbent below. Lvs > 1 cm. long, broad and serrate above, narrowing cuneately to rather long petiole. Infl. broad and compact. Bracts obtuse to subacute. Two anterior calyx-lobes fused almost to tip, the other two obtuse and overlapping posteriorally.

2n = 42

n = 21

n = 21

Subshrub or spreading low shrub, 0.05-0.3 m tall. Branches prostrate to erect; branchlets brown, red-brown, or grey; vegetative internodes 1-15 mm long; stem pubescence uniform, glandular and eglandular. Leaves erecto-patent to spreading or recurved; lamina lanceolate, oblanceolate, obovate, or spathulate, coriaceous, flat to concave, (4-)7-15(-25) × 2-6(-9) mm; apex acute to rounded, base cuneate; margin green to red, rounded, smooth or eglandular and glandular-ciliate, entire or crenate or serrate; adaxial surface glabrous, green, bronze green, or yellowish green, glossy or dull, with numerous stomata; abaxial surface glabrous, green, pale green to yellowish green, dull, with numerous stomata; midrib depressed to grooved above, thickened or depressed to grooved beneath. Petiole narrowly winged, 1-5 mm long. Inflorescence with 10-100 flowers, (1.5-)2.0-5.0(-5.5) cm long. Peduncle 0.5-1.5 cm long; rachis 0.8-1.5(-4.0) cm long, pubescent; bracts opposite and decussate to subopposite to alternate, subacute, eglandularciliate or ciliate with both glandular and eglandular hairs, deltoid. Pedicels 0-0.5 mm long. Calyx with anterior lobes united at least 2/3-way to apex, 2.0- 3.5(-4.0) mm long; lobes 4-5, not all similar, lanceolate to elliptic, obtuse, eglandular-ciliate, or glandular and eglandular-ciliate. Corolla 6-8 mm diam., pink to mauve or white at anthesis, white to mauve after pollination; corolla tube 2.0-3.0(-3.5) mm long, 3-2 mm wide, cylmdric to funnelforrn, shorter than or equalling calyx, glabrous; corolla lobes glabrous: posterior lobe about equalling or longer than tube, elliptic to rhomboid, obtuse, erect to recurved; lateral lobes elliptic, oblong, or lanceolate, subacute to obtuse, spreading; anterior lobe elliptic to rhomboid, subacute to obtuse, spreading. Stamen filaments white, inserted at or slightly above middle of corolla tube, 1.5-3.5 mm long. Anthers yellow. Nectarial disk glabrous, ciliolate, ciliate, or glandular-ciliate. Ovary globose, obtuse to emarginate, glabrous or sparsely eglandular hairy at apex, 0,8-1.0 × 0.7-1.0 mm, 0.6-0.8 mm thick. Ovules 10-16 per locule. Style 4-7 mm long, 0.15-0.3 mm thick, glabrous or with a few unicellular hairs at base, white or mauve. Stigma capitate, white at anthesis, 0.2-0.45 mm wide. Capsule angustiseptate to turgid, truncate, emarginate, or didymous, dark brown, 3.0-4.0 × (1.8-)2.0- 2.5(-3.0) mm, 1.5-2.0 mm thick, glabrous or with eglandular unicellular or multicellular hairs; loculicidal split extending ¼-½-way to base. Seeds flattened or weakly flattened, ellipsoid to fusiform or irregular, winged, smooth or very weakly rugulose on back, straw yellow to pale brown, 1.2- 2.0(-2.8) × 0.6-1.2 mm. Chromosome number 2n = 42 (Hair 1967).

Subshrub or spreading low shrub, 0.07-0.3 m tall. Branches ascending to erect; branchlets dark red-brown; vegetative internodes 2- 10(-15) mm long; stem pubescence glandular and eglandular (glandular hairs minute and obscure). Leaves erecto-patent to spreading or recurved; lamina usually lanceolate or spathulate, sometimes linear-oblanceolate, 7—17(—25) × 2-6(-9) mm wide; apex acute or subacute and subapiculate, rarely acute; margin smooth, or ciliate and glandular-ciliate on petiole and sometimes at apex, serrate; teeth blunt, in (0-)2-4(-8) pairs; adaxial surface of leaves green or yellowish green, glossy; midrib depressed to grooved above and beneath. Petiole 2-5 mm long. Inflorescence with (16-)30-80(-100) flowers; rachis pubescent; bracts opposite and decussate to subopposite to alternate, eglandular-ciliate or ciliate with both glandular and eglandular hairs. Calyx lobes 4(-5), eglandular-ciliate, or glandular and eglandular-ciliate. Corolla pink to mauve or white at anthesis, white or mauve after pollination. Stamen filaments inserted between throat and middle of corolla tube, 1.5-2.0 mm long. Nectarial disk ciliate to ciliolate, rarely with a few glandular hairs. Ovaryglabrous. Style 4-6 mm long, glabrous, white or pale mauve. Stigma narrowly capitate, 0.2-0.25 mm wide. Capsule turgid or broadly angustiseptate, truncate. Seeds (1.2-)1.5-2.0(-2.8) × 0.6-1.2 mm. Chromosome number 2n = 42 (Hair 1967). FL (Sep-) Oct-Nov(-Dec), FT Dec-Feb.