erect, about 1 ft. high, somewhat slender; branches numerous, often diffuse, mostly hirsute with coarse spreading hairs, with many short lateral branchlets bearing abundant flowers; leaves more or less spreading, linear to lanceolate, thick, sulcate, rarely narrow-ovate and open-backed, mostly hispidulous, sometimes glabrescent, mostly 1–1 1/2 lin. long; inflorescence strictly terminal, often pseudo-racemose by crowding on the short branchlets; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts variable, mostly remote and small, or minute, occasionally (as in the type specimen) the lowest one larger and foliaceous; sepals lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, usually less than 3/4 lin. long, leaf-like or coloured; corolla narrow-campanulate (in the type) to broad-campanulate, or cyathiform, from a little longer than its width to a little shorter, the mouth more or less widened, glabrous, or rarely puberulous, about 1 lin. long; segments mostly distinctly and sometimes widely spreading, from 1/2 the length of the tube to equal its length; filaments slender, bent below the anther; anthers included, sometimes manifest, oblong, with more or less obliquity, subcuneate, or narrow-elliptic, usually 1/4– 1/3 (rarely 1/5) lin. long, muticous or minutely or long aristate; pore less than 1/2 the length of the cell, style exserted; stigma capitate; ovary usually hispidulous, or at least towards the summit. null
