erect, 2–3 ft. high; branches stout, spreading or virgate, glabrous or puberulous (the plant entirely glabrous elsewhere); leaves 4-nate, somewhat spreading, curved, linear, rather stout, 3–5 lin. long; flowers 4–5-nate, on distant spreading lateral branchlets 1/2–1 in. long, upon pedicels 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, narrow-lanceolate, acute, rigid, keeled, margins scarious, 2–3 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but broader and a little longer; corolla tubular, mostly somewhat inflated, straight or slightly curved, distinctly contracted at the throat, dry, stout in texture, clear sulphur-yellow, 7–8 lin. long; limb subspreading, semi-ovate, short; awns included, oblong, scaberulous, 3/4 lin. long, aristate; awns 1 1/2–2 times the length of the cells; ovary glabrous, broad-based, sessile. null