plant 3–10 in. high, branching at the base; stems or branches usually 2–6, rarely solitary, erect or spreading, often flexuose, rather minutely scabrous-puberulous all round; leaves subsessile or very shortly petiolate, 1 1/2–4 in. long, 1/2–1 lin. broad, linear, acute, with revolute margins, scaberulous; umbels 1–4 lateral at the nodes below the uppermost pair or pairs of leaves, racemose or subcorymbose, 4–7-flowered; peduncles 1/4–2 in. long, puberulous; bracts none or filiform, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; pedicels 3–8 lin. long, puberulous; sepals reflexed, about 2 lin. long, 1/2– 3/4 lin. broad, ovate-anceolate, acuminate, pubescent; corolla-lobes reflexed, 2 1/2–3 lin. long, 1 1/3–1 3/4 lin. broad, ovate, minutely notched at the acute apex, pubescent on the back, glabrous on the inner face, apparently light purple; corona-lobes arising at the base of the staminal column, stellately wide-spreading, 2 1/2–3 1/2 lin. long, narrowly complicate-cucullate, acute, with the inflexed margins tapering into the point from the rectangularly truncate or slightly toothed base where pressed against the top of the staminal column, slightly concave or nearly straight along the top, minutely velvety-papillate within, but without a tooth or other process; staminal column 1 lin. long; anther-appendages transverse or orbicular, with their tips resting upon or inflexed over the margin of the crater-like style-apex; follicles 2 1/2 in. or more long, 3–4 lin. thick, fusiform, acuminate or beaked, smooth, minutely puberulous. null
