erect, glabrous, 1–2 ft. high; branches long, virgate, the younger striate with long prominent leaf-cushions; leaves mostly sub-6-nate, sometimes 3–4-nate or scattered, incurved-erect, linear, acuminate, slender, 3–6 lin. long; inflorescence a long and mostly dense pseudo-raceme or spike, 4–5 in. long and 1/2 in. or more in diam.; pedicels slender, 2–3 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, keel-tipped, margins scarious, about 3/4 lin. long; corolla from globose-urceolate to ovoid-urceolate, more or less constricted at the throat, from pale rosy to bright-red, about 2 lin. long; limb rounded, slightly spreading, about 1/6 the length of the tube; anthers narrow-subovate, subacute, smooth, about 1/4 lin. long, crested-aristate; pore a little over 1/2 the length of the cell; awns subulate, irregularly lobulate, bearded, about 3/4 the length of the cell; style included; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous. null
