erect, 1–1 1/2 ft. high; branches straight and subvirgate, or spreading, subcorymbose or fastigiate; leaves mostly 4-nate or sometimes scattered, erect, imbricate, usually strongly incurved, more rarely straight, linear, acute, glabrous, mostly 1–1 1/2 (rarely 2) lin. long; flowers mostly axillary, generally some also terminal, in dense clusters as if capitate at the ends of the branches, corolline; pedicels slender, floccose (as in E. cubica), 2–4 lin. long; bracts remote, linear-spathulate, about 1 lin. long; sepals ovate or lanceolate and acute, or sometimes obovate and retuse with a produced keel-point, often deeply concave, rigid, subscarious, coloured, 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, reaching 2/5– 1/2 the height of the corolla; corolla obconic or sometimes somewhat funnel-shaped, bright red or crimson, 1 1/4–1 3/4 lin. long; segments continuous, ovate, rounded or subacute, from 1/2 the length of the tube to a little longer than it; anthers included, longitudinally semiovate, acute, the cell produced beyond the pore for 1/2– 2/3 the length of the latter, papillose, hispidulous or nearly glabrous, dark-coloured, about 1/2 lin. long; pore from 1/2– 2/3 the length of the cell; style well-exserted, very slender; stigma subsimple; ovary globular, glabrous, small. null
