plant 2–5 in. high, branching; branches erect or spreading, puberulous; leaves spreading, 2–6 lin. long, 3/4–1 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, longitudinally folded, glabrous above, puberulous beneath (“on both sides,” Schlechter), narrowed into a very short petiole at the base; flowers usually in pairs (1–3, Schlechter) at the nodes, small; pedicels 1/2–1 lin. long, puberulous; sepals nearly 1 lin. (1/2 lin., Schlechter) long, lanceolate, acute, puberulous; corolla cage-like, lobed nearly to the base, with the lobes connate at the tips; united part 1/4 lin. long (as long as the sepals, Schlechter), saucer-shaped, glabrous outside and within, green; lobes 2–2 1/4 lin. long, linear or linear-filiform from a lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate base 1/2 lin. broad, perhaps replicate, thinly puberulous on the greenish back, glabrous or very minutely and sparsely papillate-puberulous and dull purplish or brownish-purple on the inner face; outer corona-lobes arising 1/4 lin. up the staminal column and equalling or slightly exceeding it, 1/3– 1/2 lin. long, deeply divided (often nearly to the base) into 2 erect linear parallel or slightly diverging teeth, variable in different flowers, glabrous; inner corona-lobes 1/3– 1/2 lin. long, linear or linear-oblong, obtuse, closely incumbent on the backs of the anthers and equalling or exceeding them and curved downwards over their tips, glabrous; follicles erect, slightly diverging, 2 1/2 in. long, about 2 1/2 lin. thick, tapering into a beak, smooth, glabrous; seeds 3–3 1/2 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, ovate or oblong-ovate, smooth and glabrous, dark brown with a broad pale brown margin. null
