erect, 1 ft. high; branches spreading, diffuse, but stout and rigid; leaves 4–6-nate, spreading-recurved, subulate, subobtuse, glabrous, 3–5 lin. long; inflorescence both terminal and lateral, flowers 4-nate or verticillate; pedicels striate, glabrous, 1 lin.; bracts strictly remote, but approximate in aspect, subulate, foliaceous, about 3 lin. long; sepals narrow linear from a short ovate scarious base, foliaceous, keeled, 3 1/2 lin. long; corolla tubular, subequal, curved, glabrous, viscidulous in the lower part, red, 10–12 lin. long; limb erect, 1 1/2 lin. long; anthers subincluded, lateral, dorsifixed, semiovate, dark coloured, muticous, about 1/2 lin. long; style glabrous; ovary broadly turbinate, wider than long, shortly stipitate, glabrous. null
