Shrubby, copiously branched, branches woody, the ultimate branchlets subtetragonous, thinly silvery. Leaves sessile, simple, obovate, folded together, 1/4 in. long, half as broad, mucronate, texture firm, both sides slightly silvery. Flowers solitary in the axils of the crowded deciduous leaves. Pedicels equalling the calyx, which is campanulate, thinly-silvery, about a line long, the lower teeth subulate, reaching more than halfway down, upper ones much shorter. Corolla reddish, three times as long as the calyx. Pod linear, 1/2– 5/8 in. long, 1 line thick, mucronate, subterete, thinly clothed with adpressed silky hairs, many-seeded.