somewhat diffuse, drying a pale yellowish hue, 4–6 in. high; branches very slender, sparsely pubescent, the ultimate subcapillary; leaves 3-nate, spreading, shorter than the internodes, lanceolate, acute, open-backed, strongly revolute-edged, ciliate and awned at the apex, 3/4–1 1/4 lin. long; flowers axillary, solitary or binate; pedicels slender, bent, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; bracts 2, remote, basal, foliaceous, small; sepals lanceolate or oblong, acute, 1/2– 3/4 lin. long; corolla broad-cyathiform, not widened at the mouth, puberulous, ochraceous yellow, about 1 1/2 lin. long; segments semiorbicular, erect, about 1/2 as long as the tube; filaments slender, equal; anthers included, oblong, dorsifixed a little above the base, under 1/3 lin. long, aristate; awns slender, upcurved, less than 1/3 the length of cell; style included; stigma subsimple upon the slightly dilated and truncate apex of the style; ovary hispidulous. null
