erect, 2–3 ft. high; branches mostly virgate, furrowed by cushions below the leaves, the older scarred, bearing many flowers in a pseudoraceme on short crowded branchlets below the apex; leaves 4-nate, erect-incurved, imbricate, linear, glabrous, 2–2 1/2 lin. long; flowers solitary; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts subremote, small, scarious; sepals broadly ovate, acute, keeled, scarious, glabrous, coloured, 2 lin. long; corolla tubular, contracted at the apex, straight or slightly curved, glabrous, dry, yellow, darkened at the throat, 8–10 lin. long; limb short, subcordate-reniform, spreading; anthers included, oblong, papillose, 3/4 lin. long, with spreading awns as long as the cells; ovary glabrous. null
