erect, apparently 1 ft. or more high; branches few, ascending, subflexuous; branchlets many, the younger white-pubescent; leaves slightly spreading, subincurved, oblong or narrow-elliptic, subobtuse, thick, round-backed, faintly sulcate, glabrous, cartilaginous-denticulate, 1/2–1 1/4 lin. long, about 2 to 2 1/2 times longer than the internodes; flowers not numerous, on short branchlets thinly scattered over the whole plant, subcalycine; pedicels curved, stout, red, shortly white-tomentose, 1 lin. long; bracts 3, approximate, oblong and lanceolate, ciliolate, shorter than the sepals; sepals ovate, acute, concave, glumaceous, keeled or keel-tipped, rosy suffused with bright red, white-margined and ciliolate with scale-like, forked or subplumose hairs, about 3/4 lin. long; corolla hemispherical or subobconic-cyathiform, about 1 lin. long; segments equal to the tube or slightly longer, rounded, suberect; filaments rather broad, lanceolate; anthers subincluded, or at full maturity subexserted, longitudinally semiovate, obtuse, minutely scaberulous, a little over 1/2 lin. long, muticous; pore large, 7/8 the length of the cell; style well-exserted, stout; stigma obconic-cyathiform; ovary sometimes glabrous, sometimes pubescent. null
