erect, stout and rigid, 9–12 in. or more high; branches ascending, pubescent with reversed hairs; leaves suberect to spreading or squarrose, broadly linear, subobtuse, keeled, sulcate, glabrous, 2–3 lin. long; flowers 3-nate to umbellate; pedicels slender, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; bracts remote, adpressed, small; sepals ovate to lanceolate-oblong, acute or obtuse, subscarious, thick-keeled, glabrous, ciliolate or naked, often yellowish, 3/4–1 1/2 lin. long; corolla subcampanulate, widened above the hemispherical tube, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, from 2/3– 4/5 the length of the tube; anthers included, cuneate and subacute, or oblong and subobtuse, ciliolate or naked, 2/5– 1/2 lin. long, cristate; pore 2/5– 3/5 the length of the cell; crests either spreading backwards at an angle or immediately deflexed, lanceolate, acuminate, lacerulate or fringed or pubescent, sometimes with one or more short lobes 1/2 as long as the cells or somewhat longer; style subexserted often decurved, stoutish; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. null
