erect, 2–3 ft. high; branches ascending, thickly pubescent; leaves 6-nate, erect-spreading or squarrose-upcurved, crowded, linear, acute, stout and rigid, glabrous, 5–6 lin. long; inflorescence verticillate, crowded at the ends of the branches; pedicels 2–3 lin. long; bracts from approximate to remote, oblanceolate, acuminate, nerved, viscid, pubescent, ciliolate, 2–3 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, villous, gland-margined, very viscid, 4–5 lin. long; corolla tubular, widening upwards, slightly curved, pubescent, or sometimes glabrous, viscidulous, bright red, 10–13 lin. long; limb erect, minutely erosulate; anthers included, sometimes becoming subexserted, sublateral or lateral, oblong, somewhat narrowly ear-shaped with a wide pore, muticous, a little more than 1 lin. long; style thinly puberulous; ovary very shortly stipitate, minutely and reversedly puberulous. null
