erect, densely floriferous, 1–1 1/2 ft. high; branches ascending or nearly erect, tomentose; leaves 3-nate, erect or subspreading, linear, obtuse, sulcate, glabrous, mostly shining, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; flowers sub-3-nate; pedicels tomentose, 1 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote, linear, small; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, sulcate and keel-tipped, pubescent, 3/5 lin. long; corolla cyathiform to obconic, not contracted but often widened at the mouth, densely long-tomentose, white, mostly about 2 1/2 lin. long; limb from nearly half, to as long as the tube; segments rounded, erect or slightly reflexed at the tips only; filaments bent at the apex; anthers included, ovate, dark brown, less than 1/3 lin. long, aristate; awns affixed near the middle of the cells, subulate with roughened margins, nearly as long as the cell; style included; ovary minutely tomentose. null
