1–1 1/2 ft. high; branches ascending or straggling, pubescent, somewhat slender; leaves 3-nate, erect or spreading, imbricate or lax, linear, obtuse, sulcate, pilose or pubescent, glabrescent, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; flowers umbellate, subcalycine or sometimes (by the more spreading sepals) subcorolline or corolline on the same plant, 3–4-nate; umbels lax, spreading; pedicels pilose, 3–5 lin. long; bracts remote, spathulate-linear, pilose, 1 lin. or more long; sepals broad-lanceolate, subobtuse, pilose, the lower half pallid, the upper green, leaf-like, with revolute margins, about equal to the corolla-tube, or occasionally only reaching to about half its height, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; corolla urceolate, subtetragonous, pilose, white, 2 lin. long; segments rounded, erect or spreading, about 1/4 the length of the tube; anthers exserted; cells deeply parted, oblong and obtuse, or sublanceolate and subacute, scaberulous, dark-brown, about 1 lin. long; pore 3/4– 7/8 the length of the cell; style tetragonous; stigma simple, or (rarely?) capitate; ovary pilose with long erect hairs. null
