erect, glabrous, 1–1 1/2 ft. high; branches of straggling habit, rigid; leaves 4-nate, adpressed at the base, erect-recurved to subsquarrose, oval to lanceolate, blunt, thick, ciliate, 2–4 lin. long, the floral more or less (sometimes much) dilated; umbels 3–4-flowered; pedicels stout, 3–4 lin. long; bracts approximate, oblanceolate or lanceolate, ciliate, reddish, 3–4 lin. long; sepals oblong, obtuse, ciliate, crimson, 3–4 lin. long; corolla ampullaceous; tube ovoid or subglobose below, more or less gradually narrowed to the neck, then slightly dilated at the throat, viscidulous, 9–12 lin. long, pale rose with darker red veins; segments spreading, broad ovate, very obtuse or subreniform, crenulate, white (or spotted or edged with red), 2–3 lin. long; filaments widened at the anther; anthers subcrescent-shaped, acute, slender, prognathous and bilobed at the base, pallid, 1–1 1/4 lin. long, muticous; ovary subsessile or on a short broad stipe. null
