a slender branched erect shrub, under 1 ft. high; branches ascending or spreading, pubescent; leaves erect or sometimes incurved or spreading, imbricate, linear, keeled or round-backed, slender, glabrous, 1–2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, on rather short branchlets; pedicels 1–2 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, ciliolate or naked, about 1/2 lin. long; corolla urceolate, mouth usually slightly (rarely much) contracted, rosy, 1 1/4–2 (mostly 1 1/2) lin. long; segments small, erect or spreading (probably always spreading at full maturity); anthers included, ovate, obtuse, glabrous, margins naked, little more than 1/5 lin. long, broad-aristate or subcristate; pore about 1/2 as long as the cell; awns deflexed close to the cells, broadish-subulate, entire or minutely lacerate, from 1/2 as long to nearly as long as the cells; style included; stigma capitellate; ovary sessile on a broad disk, glabrous. null
