erect, 1 1/2–2 1/2 ft. high; branches slender; leaves 4-nate, erect, imbricate or sometimes shorter than the internodes, variable in size, from linear to lanceolate and ovate, acute, more or less open-backed, thick and rigid, roughly and thinly hispid, and pectinate-ciliate with long pallid cartilaginous hairs, the floral leaves wider and passing gradually into the form of the bracts, 1 1/2–3 lin. long; flowers mostly 4-nate, cernuous or spreading; pedicels 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, unguiculate, broad ovate or subtriangular, margins scarious, rigidly pectinate-ciliate, with a thick central nerve, about 3 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but the claw longer, and the blade somewhat smaller, about 3 1/2 lin. long; corolla tubular, slightly inflated about the middle, constricted below the short spreading limb, pubescent, the upper part with longer barbellate or shaggy hairs, white or rosy, 7–9 lin. long; anthers included, oblong, 7/8 lin. long, shortly aristate; style exserted; ovary obconical, villous with long white silky hairs. null
