erect, 9–18 in. high; branches slender, ascending or spreading, glabrous, puberulous or viscid with gland-tipped hairs; leaves 3-nate, often subdistant, or shorter than the internodes, erect-spreading to squarrose-recurved, linear, acute or obtuse, slender, subterete, sulcate, ciliate and tipped with long glandular hairs, 4–7 lin. long; flowers umbellate; pedicels slender, striate, viscid, 5–8 lin. long; bracts remote, lanceolate, 1 lin. long; sepals linear to lanceolate, subacute, tipped with a glandular seta, margins involute, gland-ciliate, viscid, polished, 2–3 lin. long; corolla tubular below, inflated above, constricted at the throat, puberulous, rather viscid, red, about 1/2 in. long; segments short, broad, recurved-spreading; anthers exserted, cohering into a conical tube round the style, dorsifixed, linear, slender, 1 1/2–3 lin. long, aristate; awns very slender, of variable length; style exserted beyond the anthers; ovary cylindrical, glabrous. null
