branches virgate, 10–12 in. long, with dense pseudo-racemes of flowers below the ends of the branches; leaves 4-nate, squarrose to recurved, crowded, oblong or lanceolate, acute, sulcate, thick, glabrous, 2–2 1/2 lin. long; pedicels glabrous, about 3 lin. long; bracts remote, small, ovate-rhomboidal or suborbicular, subacute, keel-tipped, scarious, 2–2 1/2 lin. long; corolla tubular asymmetrically inflated, mouth contracted, oblique, white, glabrous, dry, 8–10 lin. long; limb erect, short; anthers included, oblong, sharply prognathous, about 1 lin. long, aristate; awns about as long as the cells; ovary very shortly stipitate, glabrous. null
