dwarf, erect, 6–8 in. high; branches ascending, dark-coloured, naked below, leafy above, the younger cano-puberulous; leaves 3-nate, suberect or spreading, elliptical, blunt, thick and rounded, sulcate, glabrous, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; flowers terminal, 3-nate; pedicels slender, viscid, red, 2 1/2–3 lin. long; bracts remote, 2 median, 1 basal, scarious, 1 lin. long; sepals lanceolate-oblong, acute, scarious, viscid, glabrous, 1 1/2 lin. long; corolla narrow-ovoid-urceolate, glabrous, viscid, purple, 2 1/2 lin. long; limb short, spreading; anthers included, dorsifixed shortly above the base, cuneate, subacute, 1/2 lin. long or about twice the width at the base, glabrous, smooth, subaristate or narrow-crested; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; awns lanceolate at the base, tapering to a long fine point, with (sometimes at least) a single median saw-like tooth, the whole about as long as the cell; style included; stigma capitellate; ovary minutely puberulous or glabrous. null