erect, 2 ft. high or more; branches virgate or sometimes spreading; leaves 3- or 4-nate, erect or spreading, narrow-linear, subtrigonous, pubescent or glabrous, lanceolate and roughly hispid, ciliate or naked, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; flowers solitary on numerous short lateral branchlets, or sometimes (according to Bentham) 1–3-nate; pedicels 1/2– 3/4 lin. long; bracts small, subapproximate, scarious, keel-tipped; sepals very variable, linear from a broad subrotund scarious lacerate base, more or less elongate, keeled, or ovate, or oblong-lanceolate, acute, pilose or glabrous, 1 1/4–2 1/2 lin. long; corolla subclavate-tubular, more or less pubescent or villous, dry, at length curved, pale rosy or purplish, 8–12 lin. long; limb erect or spreading; filaments dilated and bent near the anther; anthers included, broadly oblong or cuneate, muticous; ovary 8-celled (or, according to Salisbury) 6–8-celled, glabrous. null
