erect, entirely glabrous, 2–5 ft. high; branches numerous, ascending, subflexuous; leaves 4-nate, erect-incurved, imbricate, narrow-linear, subobtuse, sulcate, entire or obscurely serrulate, 2 1/2–3 1/2 lin. long; flowers terminal, 4-nate; pedicels 3 lin. long; bracts remote, lanceolate, keeled, scarious, coloured, 2–3 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but broad-lanceolate to obovate-oblong, acute, imbricate, keel-tipped, very concave, about 2 1/2 lin. long, mostly reaching to the length of the corolla-tube; corolla globose-urceolate, distinctly constricted at the throat, bluntly 4-gonous below with deep intermediate depressions between the angles, about 2 1/2 lin. long; segments short, broad, spreading, about 1/4 the length of the tube; filaments rather broad, bent below the anther; anthers included, lateral, broad-oblong, very obtusely rounded; cells completely divided to below the base, each on a branch of the decurrent connective, and at length becoming subdistant, pale brown, about 1/2 lin. long, crested; pore large and wide, 2/3 the length of the cell; crests obliquely lanceolate-acuminate, serrulate, pallid, somewhat longer than the cell; style included, very short and stout; stigma capitellate or subsimple; ovary glabrous. null
