branches few, erect, slender, glabrous; leaves erect to spreading, linear, sulcate, the younger pubescent and ciliate like the bracts and sepals with minutely plumose hairs, glabrescent, terminating in a sharp awn, 3–6 lin. long; flowers sub-4-nate; pedicels 2–3 lin. long; bracts subremote, two very small, the third longer, foliaceous; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, awned, coloured, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; corolla ovoid to globose-urceolate, mouth much contracted, 2 1/2–3 lin. long or more; segments erect, rounded; anthers included, subcuneate or longitudinally semiovate, dorsally curved, 2/5 lin. long, crested at the base; pore 3/4 as long as the cell; crests more than 1/2 the length of the cell, lobed, acute, erosulate; style included or just manifest; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. null
