erect, 1 ft. or more high; branches ascending; branchlets spreading or sometimes divaricate, hirsute; leaves 4-nate, or sometimes 3-nate, spreading, not close-set, ovate and more or less flat with reflexed margins, or lanceolate with more strongly revolute margins, acute, open-backed, midrib prominent, pubescent below, glabrous above, setose-ciliate, 2–2 1/2 lin. long, 1–1 1/2 lin. wide; flowers terminal, sub-4-nate or umbellate (acc. to Bentham occasionally axillary); pedicels slender, gland-pilose, 2–4 lin. long; bracts remote, lax, small, variable in shape and position; sepals ovate-lanceolate, scarious, shining, viscid, coloured, more or less copiously setose-ciliate with longish subdistant hairs, rarely almost naked, otherwise glabrous, about 1 lin. long; corolla urceolate or ovoid-urceolate, mouth much contracted, viscid, 2–2 1/2 lin. long; limb erect or slightly spreading, 1/6– 1/5 as long as the tube; filaments narrow, dilated just below the anther; anthers exserted or subexserted, lateral, dorsifixed just above the base, oblong, curved, subacute, about 4/5 lin. long, minutely aristulate or perhaps sometimes (as described by Bentham) muticous; pore narrow, more than 1/2 as long as the cell; awns scarcely reaching below the base of the cell; style slender, well exserted; stigma capitellate; ovary hispidulous. null
