slender, erect, 1–1 1/2 ft. or more high; branches subvirgate, pallid, pubescent, glabrous or glabrescent; leaves 3-nate, erect, often adpressed, linear-lanceolate or oblong, subobtuse, sulcate, glandular-hirsute or glabrous, ciliate or at length naked, imbricate in the uppermost, or equalling or shorter than the internodes in the lower parts of the branches, 2–2 1/2 lin. long; flowers sub-3-nate, clustered or more often lax; pedicels 2–3 lin. long; bracts, 2 upper subapproximate, lowest median, lanceolate, ciliate, 1 1/2 lin. long; sepals lanceolate, acute or acuminate, not or scarcely imbricating at the base, spreading or sometimes somewhat recurved towards the apex, keeled or the keel sometimes obsolete, mostly faintly wrinkled across the keel near the base, 1 3/4–2 lin. long, pale purple or lilac, reaching a little below or above the corolla; corolla urceolate-tubular, very little inflated below or contracted at the throat, subtetragonous, prominently 4-nerved, viscidulous, 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long; segments rounded, stellate-patent or subrecurved, concolorous, about 1/4 the length of the tube; anthers longitudinally semilanceolate, 5 1/2 times as long as their greatest width, tapering to the apex but scarcely acute, smooth; cells deeply partite, between 2/5 and 1/2 lin. long, appendiculate; pore more than 1/2 the length of the cell; appendages lanceolate, acute, incurved, incised, 1/3 the length of the cell; style included, or just manifest above the corolla-tube; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. null
