erect, 3–5 ft. high; branches subvirgate, pubescent; leaves 4-nate, erect and imbricate, or somewhat spreading, linear, sulcate, glabrous, the younger ciliate, 3–5 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, mostly erect; bracts approximate, like the sepals, but about 2/3 of their length; sepals linear-lanceolate and acuminate, or ovate-lanceolate or oblong and subobtuse, subscarious below with a foliaceous keeled apex, pilose or glabrous, ciliate, 2 1/2–4 1/2 lin. long; corolla tubular or clavate-tubular, glabrous, viscid, red below, yellow above, 10–12 lin. long; filaments very slightly wider at the base; anthers included or manifest, broad-linear, truncate and somewhat hollowed at the base, but scarcely pointed in front, about 1 lin. long, minutely aristate or muticous; awns scarcely reaching beyond the base of the cells; style often decurved at the apex; ovary glabrous. null
