plant about 6 in. high, branching; branches minutely puberulous with recurved hairs; leaves ascending-spreading, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, 1–1 1/2 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, cuneately tapering into a short petiole at the base, longitudinally folded, glabrous above, puberulous with minute curved hairs beneath; flowers 2 or more together at the nodes; pedicels 1/2–1 lin. long; sepals about 1 lin. long, lanceolate, attenuate-acuminate, puberulous with curved hairs; corolla cage-like, lobed nearly to the base, with the lobes connate at the tips; tube 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, cup-like, with a thin and exceedingly minute almost powder-like puberulence or a few small hairs outside, glabrous within; lobes 7–10 lin. long, linear-filiform, with a microscopic puberulence (scarcely pubescence) on both sides and ciliate with a few very minute scattered curved hairs, or glabrous on the inner face and thinly pubescent on the back, apparently dark purple-brown; outer corona of 5 pairs of erect linear-filiform teeth 3/4 lin. long, thinly ciliate with comparatively long hairs; inner corona-lobes 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, linear-filiform, acute, about twice as long as the anthers and incumbent upon them at the base, with the tips connivent-erect or perhaps crossing each other. null
