erect, 1 ft. or more high; branches few, puberulous, with lateral floriferous branchlets 1–1 1/2 in. long; leaves erect or somewhat spreading, straight or incurved, imbricate but scarcely crowded, lanceolate-linear, subobtuse, pallid, glabrous, the younger ciliolate, 2–3 lin. long; flowers mostly cernuous, not clustered, corolline; pedicels pubescent, 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long; bracts subremote or subapproximate, lax, ovate or cordate, acute, keeled, scarious, coloured, about 1 1/4 lin. long; sepals, 2 orbicular, 2 narrower and ovate, obtuse, apiculate, otherwise like the bracts and about as long, rarely reaching to the top of the corolla-tube; corolla obconic or subfunnel-shaped, widely spreading to the mouth, rosy, 2 1/2–4 lin. long; segments continuous, ovate, rounded, variable in length, from less than 1/2 the tube to a little longer than it; anthers included, the lower portion suborbicular, produced above into a contracted acuminate apex for from 1–1 1/2 times the length of the pore, coarsely shaggy and ciliate, foxy-brown, 2/3– 3/4 lin. long; pore about 1/3 the length of the cell; style exserted, very slender; stigma obconic, very small; ovary glabrous. null
