erect, glabrous, 1 1/2–3 ft. high; branches stout, ascending, leafy; leaves 4-nate, erect-spreading to squarrose, imbricate, often flexuous, lanceolate-linear, acute, 3–5 lin. long; inflorescence lateral, mostly solitary, though somewhat crowded, rarely subterminal; pedicels decurved, 2–5 1/2 lin. long; bracts subremote, ovate, scarious, 2–2 1/2 lin. long; sepals rhomboid-oval, acute, keeled, scarious, 3 lin. long, greenish; corolla tubular, slightly asymmetrically inflated, mouth somewhat contracted, more or less deeply 4-foveolate at the base, glabrous, dry, 6–12 lin. long, white or greenish-white; limb a somewhat darker green; anthers nearly as in E. bowieana, but somewhat wider; ovary sessile, glabrous. null
