The annual stems twining or prostrate or sprawling, patently pubescent with rigid trichomes. Leaves orbicular to transversely elliptic in outline, palmately divided nearly to the base, (3-) 5-7 (-9)-lobed, the segments oblong to elliptic, attenuate to acuminate on both ends, acute to obtuse apically, pubescent with appressed or patent trichomes, 3-7.5 cm long, often wider than long. Flowers involucrate-cymose. Sepals lanceolate or the inner narrow-lanceolate, 7-12 mm long, pubescent. Corolla funnel-shaped, white, 3-4 cm long. Fruits capsular, ovoid, 8 mm long. Seeds gray tomentose, 4 mm long.

Fl. Per.: August to October.

Type: Ceylon, Hermann herbarium 4:82. (BM, lecto-, fide Verdcourt in Fl. Trop. E. Afr. 1963).

B-7 Swat: Buner, R.R. Stewart, E. Nasir & M.A. Siddiqi 1316 (RAW), Kashmir: Garhi, Jhelum Vy. road, R.R. Stewart 10108 (RAW), C-7 Rawalpindi Dist.: Rawalpindi, M.A. Siddiqi 1488 (RAW), Rawalpindi, R.R. Stewart 15095, 21898 (RAW), Rawalpindi, Majid 64 (RAW), Kashmir: Nawal Nadi, 11.9. 1953, Rashid, Nasir & Stewart, s.n. (RAW), G-4 Karachi Dist.: Karachi, S.M.H. Jafri 4106 (KUH), Malir, Khadija Aziz s.n. (KUH), G-5 Hyderabad Dist.: Tajpur-Nasarpur, 21.10.1959, A. Jails s.n. (RAW).

Distribution: East tropical Africa, through tropical Asia, and throughout Malaysia.

This species prefers thorn scrub and dry habitats.