erect, robust, 3–5 ft. high; branches ascending, sometimes virgate; leaves 6-nate or scattered, erect-incurved, spreading or squarrose, linear, acuminate, round-backed, glabrous, 8–10 lin. long; inflorescence generally crowded towards the ends of the branches; pedicels about 2 lin. long; bracts subremote or subapproximate, linear, about 1 1/2 lin. long; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, glabrous, 1–3 lin. long; corolla attenuate below, glabrous, viscidulous or dry, 12–14 lin. long, orange-red; limb erect; segments semi-ovate, bluntly acute; stamens far exserted; anthers subterminal or sublateral, obovate-oblong, the long wide pore (from 3/4 to nearly the full length of the cell) giving an ear-like appearance; cells often bipartite from below the base, muticous, 1–1 1/3 lin. long; ovary most usually minutely puberulous with reversed hairs, more rarely glabrous. null
