erect, virgately branched; leaves 3-nate, erect, subincurved, imbricate, linear or linear-lanceolate, sulcate, puberulous, 2–3 lin. long; flowers usually 3-nate, occasionally solitary by abortion; pedicels 3 lin. long; bracts approximate, ovate, acute, keel-tipped, with scarious margins, like the sepals very concave and covered with a soft greyish tomentum, ciliate, about 1/2 as long as the sepals; sepals oblong or obovate, obtuse, keel-tipped, apiculate, scarious, 2 1/2–3 lin. long; corolla subclavate-tubular, incurved, glabrous, viscid, 12–15 lin. long; limb nearly erect; filaments capillary, nearly equally linear; anthers included or subexserted, oblong, truncate at the base and somewhat sharply pointed in front, 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long, aristate; awns capillary and somewhat turned backwards; ovary glabrous. null
