branches slender, glabrous, the younger deeply channelled between the long prominent leaf-cushions; leaves 6-nate or somewhat scattered, erect or spreading, with a long hair-like pallid petiole, slender-linear, subtrigonous, keeled, acute, glabrous, 1/2– 3/4 in. long; flowers more or less crowded towards the ends of the branches; pedicels slender, puberulous, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; bracts remote, narrow-linear, 1 1/2 lin. long; sepals linear from an ovate base, long-acuminate, minutely gland-ciliate, deep-red, 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular, slightly inflated above the middle, thence gradually contracted towards the apex, glabrous or minutely velvety or puberulous, dry, 5 lin. long; limb short, rounded, erect; filaments 3 lin. long; anthers included, dorsifixed near the base, oblong, obtuse, about 4/5 lin. long, muticous or sometimes minutely decurrent-denticulate shortly below the anther; pore 2/5 the length of the cell; style exserted, stout; stigma rather large, capitate; ovary exactly that of preceding and next species. null
