stem stout; branches ascending, pubescent, 10 in. or more long; leaves erect-spreading, imbricate, lanceolate to oblong, subtrigonous, the younger ciliate, 2–2 1/2 lin. long; pedicels 1–1 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, ovate, acute, cartilaginous, large; sepals lanceolate to ovate, acute or acuminate, subscarious or cartilaginous, with a strong excurrent short keel-tip, glabrous, ciliate or naked, 2 lin. long, a little shorter or longer than the corolla; corolla suburceolate, glabrous, viscid? (acc. to Bentham), about 2 lin. long, longer than its width; filaments rather broad, dilated and shortly bent just below the anther; anthers terminal, longitudinally narrow-semi-elliptical, acute or acuminate; cells deeply partite and usually at length spreading in the upper part, hispidulous, brownish, 1 lin. long or a little over; pore about 2/3 the length of the cell; ovary glabrous. null