erect, 2–3 ft. high; branches stout, pubescent; leaves 3-nate, suberect and imbricate, or somewhat spreading, linear or narrow-lanceolate, glabrous or the younger viscid-puberulous, often glossy, 1 1/2–3 1/2 lin. long; pedicels 1–1 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, like the sepals but about 2/3 their length; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, keeled-tipped, scarious, coloured, glabrous, ciliolate or naked, 2–2 1/2 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular or trumpet-shaped, glabrous, dry, red, 9–12 lin. long; limb erect or slightly spreading, red or greenish; filaments equal at the base or but slightly dilated; anthers included or just manifest, linear to oblong, more or less hollowed at the base, about 3/4 lin. long, aristate; awns reaching 2/3 the length of the cell below it, or much shorter; style usually curved at the apex; ovary glabrous. null
