erect, 2–3 ft. high; branches white-pubescent; leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, imbricate, slender, linear, blunt, sulcate, glabrescent, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, abundant; pedicels 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate or sometimes subremote, foliaceous; sepals from broadish- to narrow-lanceolate, subacute, sometimes foliaceous, greenish and dry, sometimes subscarious, coloured and slightly viscid, 2/3–1 1/3 lin. long; corolla urceolate, mouth very slightly contracted, or ovoid with a narrower mouth, glabrous, white or rosy, 1 3/4–2 1/4 lin. long; segments erect, very short, about 1/5 the length of the tube; anthers subexserted, subterminal, or sometimes strictly terminal, suboblong or oblong-obovate, dorsally curved, very obtuse, about 1/2 lin. long, quite muticous, or very minutely toothed on the cells above the base, or with a single projecting tooth between the cells at their base in front; pore 1/3– 2/5 the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma clavate-capitellate, small; ovary hispid-puberulous. null