branches slender, flexuous, clothed, as are the leaves, pedicels, bracts and sepals, with longish gland-tipped hairs; leaves 3-nate, spreading, linear or oblong, obtuse, sulcate, minutely puberulous and also long-ciliate, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; flowers axillary and terminal, 2–3-nate; pedicels slender, 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long; bracts 3, remote, median, minute; sepals broad ovate, with thick strongly revolute margins, dark-coloured when dry, about 1/2 lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate, at first not much contracted to the mouth, afterwards becoming more so, and also more inflated, glabrous, very viscid, 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, bluntly rounded, short; filaments equal, slender; anthers semiexserted, lateral, dorsifixed just above the base, oblong, from about 2/5 to nearly 3/5 lin. long, aristulate; pore from 2/5 to 3/5 the length of the cell; awns short, sometimes extremely minute; style exserted, slender; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous. null
