erect, 1–2 ft. high; branches ascending, often straggling, tomentose and glandular-pilose; leaves 4-nate, squarrose, narrow-oblong, or the shorter subovate, open-backed, obtuse, gland-pilose, 2–3 lin. long; flowers umbellate; umbels 4–10-flowered, often clustered; pedicels 2–3 lin. long; bracts remote; sepals lanceolate-oblong, pubescent and gland-ciliate with long hairs, about 1 lin. long, pedicels, bracts and sepals all glandular-pilose; corolla oblong or cyathiform-campanulate, mouth not contracted, pubescent, yellowish, about 1 1/2 lin. long; segments spreading, more than 1/2 as long as the tube; anthers subexserted, oblong, narrowed to the base, minutely aristulate or sometimes muticous (?); awns not reaching beyond the base of the cell, or sometimes with a minute tooth on either side of the filament near its apex; style exserted; stigma clavate-capitate; ovary lanate. null
