erect, glabrous, 1 1/2–2 ft. high; branches spreading and ascending; leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, imbricate, linear, 2–3 1/2 lin. long; umbels copious, 3–6-flowered; pedicels 4–7 lin. long; bracts remote, linear, 2 1/2–3 1/2 lin. long; sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, red with a green nerve, 3–5 1/2 lin. long; corolla subampullaceous, much inflated below, with a very long much attenuate neck, dilated in the throat, dry or slightly viscid, bright red, ribbed with 8 darker red veins; tube 9–20 lin. long; segments ovate, acute or acuminate, stellato-patent, 2–5 lin. long; filaments very narrow at the base, widened upwards but not dilated towards the anther; anthers oblong, nearly straight, bilobed, not prognathous at the base, pallid, about 1 lin. long or less, aristate; awns very short, not reaching to the base of the anther; ovary on a broadish, longer or shorter stipe, glabrous. null
