erect, 1 1/2 ft. or more high; branches stout, pubescent; leaves from erect to spreading, usually incurved, linear, subacute, stout, keeled or obscurely sulcate, ciliolate or naked, glabrous or rarely slightly puberulous, glossy, 2–4 lin. long; flowers terminal, 4-nate, sometimes umbellate, sometimes pseudo-racemose; pedicels 1 1/2–4 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals lanceolate to ovate, subacute, glabrous and glossy, or puberulous, keeled, scarious-edged, ciliate, mostly deeply-coloured, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; corolla urceolate, ovoid-urceolate or suburceolate-cyathiform, more or less (sometimes only very slightly) contracted at the throat, rosy, 2–3 lin. long; segments small, erect, or slightly spreading; anthers included, more rarely just manifest, oblong, subobtuse, dark-coloured, 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, crested shortly above the base; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; crests lanceolate or ovate, lacerate, lobed or serrulate, 1/2– 3/4 the length of the cells, rosy; style exserted; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. null
