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Information stems prostrate, 1 1/2–15 ft. long, branching, pubescent or somewhat scabrous; leaves spreading, scabrous; petiole 1–5 lin. long; blade 2/3–2 1/2 in. long, 1/8–1 in. broad, linear, lanceolate, oblong, ovate to nearly circular, acute or obtuse and apiculate at the apex, rounded, truncate, cordate or subhastate at the base, rather thick and rigid, often wavy or crisped on the margins; umbels pedunculate, 2–13-flowered; peduncle 1/3–1 1/2 in. long, scabrous or pubescent; bracts 1–2 1/2 lin. long, 1/4– 2/3 lin. broad, subulate or ovate-lanceolate, acute; pedicels 2–7 lin. long, scabrous or pubescent; sepals 1 1/2–3 lin. long, 2/3–1 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, pubescent; corolla pubescent all over the outside and within the upper part of the tube, cream-coloured; tube usually 1/2– 3/4 in. long, rarely less, globose-pentagonal (i.e. with 5 inflations between the sepals) at the base, cylindric and 1 lin. in diam. above; lobes usually 4 1/2–6 lin. long, rarely less, 1 1/4 lin. broad, more or less spreading, linear-lanceolate, acute, recurved along the margins, glabrous on the inner face; corona-lobes 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, broadlyΛ-shaped, adnate to the staminal column, with broad free reflexed margins; staminal column 1 1/2 lin. long; anthers connivent-erect over and about twice as long as the conical acute style-apex, oblong, with a subulate or deltoid-lanceolate glabrous appendage 1/2 as long as the cells; follicles 4 in. long, 1/2 in. thick, fusiform, tapering into a long beak. null