plant 4–8 in. high, branching at the base; branches decumbent, somewhat harshly and thinly pubescent, chiefly along one side; leaves (including the 1–1 1/2 lin.-long petiole) 1/2–1 1/2 in. long, 1 1/2–4 1/2 lin. broad, linear-attenuate, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute, truncate or slightly hastate at the base, glabrous on both sides or with a few short stiff hairs on the midrib beneath; umbel solitary on each branch, terminal, erect, 4–8-flowered; peduncle 1–3 in. long; bracts 1 1/2–3 lin. long, subulate or filiform; pedicels 1/2– 3/4 in. long, puberulous or subscabrous down one side; sepals 2 lin. long, 3/4 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, with a few spreading hairs on the back; corolla-lobes very spreading, 4 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous on the back, with a very minute papillate-puberulous or velvet-like surface on the inner face, apparently pale purplish; corona-lobes arising close to the base of the staminal column and not overtopping it, 2–2 1/4 lin. long, nearly 1 lin. broad across the side, erect, complicate-cucullate, with infolded margins, narrowed into the column at the base, obliquely and sinuously subtruncate at the top, the dorsal subobtuse apex being very slightly produced, with a transverse shelf-like flap within the cavity above the middle; staminal column 2 lin. long. null
