erect, probably 2–3 ft. high; branches stout, sometimes virgate, densely leafy, pubescent, with many lateral flowering branchlets from 1/3– 2/3 in. long; leaves 4-nate, imbricate, erect-incurved, narrow-lanceolate, acute, keeled, sulcate, glabrous, the younger ciliolate with simple hairs, 3–4 1/2 lin. long; flowers solitary, erect or spreading; pedicels pubescent, under 1 lin. long; bracts adpressed, narrow-lanceolate, acute, scarious, translucent, pale green, ciliate, about 2/3 the length of the sepals; sepals like the bracts, but larger and narrow ovate, keeled with a dark green band, 4 lin. long; corolla 10–12 lin. long, tubular, usually straight, rarely slightly curved; tube nearly equal, dilated at the throat, the lower portion thinly pubescent and dark red, the upper pilose, passing into orange at the throat and limb; throat oblique; segments spreading, semiorbicular, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; anthers included or manifest, rarely subexserted, inserted on the filament just above the base of the cell, broad oblong, subobtuse, rounded at the base, scaberulous, muticous, dark-coloured, about 7/8 lin. long; pore 1/3– 2/5 of the length of the cell; style shortly exserted; stigma capitellate; ovary subglobose, glabrous. null
