branches straggling, diffuse, flexuous, woody, but somewhat slender for their size, white-pubescent, 6–8 in. long; leaves 4-nate, spreading, slender, linear, subobtuse, sulcate, nearly flat, glabrous, 2 1/2–3 1/2 lin. long; flowers mostly 4-nate, occasionally 3-nate, sometimes by arrest of the branchlets axillary; pedicels suberect, pubescent, 4–5 lin. long; bracts remote, lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; sepals erect, not imbricate at the base, obovate or oblanceolate, shortly acute, keeled, scarious, 2–2 1/2 lin. long, about equalling the tube of the corolla; corolla broad-urceolate or subglobose-urceolate, throat slightly constricted, several-nerved, glabrous, dry, red, about 2 1/2 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, broad, rounded, about 2/5 the length of the tube; filaments broad below, tapering upwards, about 1 lin. long; anthers included, lateral, longitudinally semilanceolate to semiovate, subacuminate; cells deeply parted, about 1/2 lin. long, crested; pore 2/3 the length of the cell; crests broad-ovate or suborbicular, minutely serrulate, about 2/3 the length of the cell, brown; style at length exserted, angular, swollen a little at the apex; stigma a short filiform point, much narrower than the truncated end of the style; ovary glabrous. null
