Shrub, 30-50 cm tall. Stem woody and much branched at the base; branches slender, glabrous and smooth; intemodes elongated, 4-8 cm long. Leaves opposite and temate, rarely 4 in a whorl, 20-35 x c. 1 mm, linear, sessile, ± revolute and glabrous. Stipules ± absent. Inflorescence much elongated and paniculated cymes, lateral branches shorter than the central branch. Pedicels 1-1.5 mm long, much enlarged in fruit, Calyx tube adnate to the ovary, c. 2 mm long, thickened and enlarged in fruit, densely and long woolly pubescent, teeth linear, glabrescent, c. 1 mm long. Corolla infundibuliform, up to 12 mm long, lilac, hirsute above, glabrous within; tube c. 10 mm long, lobes 5, lanceolate, 3-4 mm long, acute. Stamens inserted below the throat, exserted, anthers c. 2 mm long, dorsifixed, linear. Style exserted, c. 12 mm long; stigma branched, papillose. Fruit globose-ovate, woolly-pubescent, crowned by persistent calyx-teeth.

Type: Afghanistan, Near Kandahar, Pirzada, 900 m., 20.5.1949, Koie 2029 (W; Isotype-C).

Distribution: Afghanistan and Pakistan (Baluchistan).

A new record from Pakistan; an extension of the range.