erect, 2–3 ft. high; branches ascending, subvirgate, tomentulose, with numerous lateral, erect or decurved, short flowering branchlets of from 1/2–1 in. long; leaves erect-spreading, imbricate, linear-lanceolate, trigonous, subobtuse, sulcate, glabrous, smooth, 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long; flowers often clustered, calycine; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts and sepals broad-ovate, keel-tipped, cartilaginous, very concave, pallid, completely concealing the corolla, the former 1/2– 3/4 lin., the latter about 1 lin. long; corolla subtubular, white, about 1 lin. long; segments erect, rounded, 1/3– 1/2 the length of the tube; filaments very broad; anthers exserted, sublateral, oblong, subacute, nearly smooth, brown, about 2/3 lin. long, muticous; pore 3/4 the length of the cell; stigma narrow-peltate, 4-dentate. null
