erect, 1–1 1/2 ft. high; branches subvirgate; leaves 4–6-nate, mostly erect-incurved, more rarely spreading, linear, acute, glabrous, 4–6 lin. long; inflorescence crowded towards the ends of the branches; flowers usually erect or ascending; pedicels less than 1 lin. long; bracts subapproximate or remote, linear, 1 1/2 lin. long; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or cuspidate, keeled, keel broadly cuneate at base tapering upwards, viscidulous, green, 2–3 lin. long; corolla subobconic, sometimes subcampanulate, narrow-tubular in the lower half, then somewhat suddenly and obliquely widened upwards, oblique at the apex, viscidulous, red, 1/4– 1/2 in. long; limb erect; anthers included, subterminal to sublateral, semiobovate, muticous, dark-coloured, about 3/4 lin. long; style glabrous, included; ovary turbinate, sessile or substipitate, puberulous, glabrescent. null
