erect, 1–1 1/2 ft. high; branches suberect or spreading, floccose with very short subplumose hairs, beset with many short flowering branches; leaves 3-nate, erect or spreading, crowded, subulate-linear, obtuse, glabrous and glossy, or puberulous, the younger cartilagineo-ciliolate, 1–3 lin. long; flowers terminal, 3-nate; pedicels slender, pubescent. 1 1/2–3 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, coriaceous, coloured, rigid, sepal-like, sometimes equalling or even exceeding the sepals in length; sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, keel-tipped, thick, coriaceous, adpressed or subsquarrose, glabrous, viscid, coloured, 3/4–1 1/2 lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate, sometimes slightly narrowed above, at others into a distinct and somewhat narrow neck, viscid, white or red, 2 1/2–3 lin. long; segments spreading or nearly erect; anthers included, dorsifixed near the base, narrow-oblong, subacute, 3–3 1/2 times longer than the width at the middle, smooth, ciliate at the base, 5/8– 7/8 lin. long, aristate at the base; pore about 3/4 the length of the cell; awns broad-linear, densely ciliate, partially decurrent along the filament or connective, which projects at an angle from the cell, thence free and bent downwards, in total length about equal to the cells; style included; stigma small, subclavate-capitellate; ovary densely hirsute. null
