erect; branches numerous, ascending, cano-puberulous; leaves erect, or the older spreading, linear to oblong, acute, deeply sulcate or open-backed, mostly glabrous, sometimes hispidulous, 1–2 1/2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, sometimes umbellately clustered, subcalycine; bracts remote, basal, small; calyx more or less deeply 4-fid, about 3/8 lin. long; segments deltoid or ovate, subacute, keeled or keel-tipped, about equal to the tube or only a little shorter or longer; corolla cyathiform or subobconic, pink, about 1/2 lin. long; segments divergent, somewhat longer than the tube; anthers oblong, obtuse, smooth, about 1/4 lin. long; pore less than 1/2 the length of the cell; style shortly exserted, sometimes dilated at the apex; stigma peltate or cyathiform; ovary glabrous. null