erect, stout, 2–3 ft. high, by far the largest in this section; branches thickish, erect or divaricate, puberulous and also pilose with glandular hairs; leaves 4-nate, mostly squarrose or spreading, generally longer than the internodes, linear or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, puberulous above, velvety and paler beneath, narrowly open-backed with thick revolute margins, minutely puberulous, ciliate with setose gland-tipped hairs, 2–3 lin. long; flowers axillary and terminal, appearing subracemose on the ends of the branches, sometimes lax and interrupted, sometimes congested into a short pseudo-spike; pedicels from 1–2 lin. long; bracts remote, minute, or some occasionally wanting; sepals linear or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, foliaceous, tipped with a glandular hair, about 1 lin. long; corolla short-cyathiform or suburceolate-cyathiform, scarcely contracted or widened to the mouth, glabrous, dry, about 1 1/2 lin. long, rather less in width; segments short, erect; anthers from subincluded to subexserted, lateral, dorsifixed near the base, about 1/2 lin. long or less, aristate; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; awns straight, 1/2 the length of the cell or less; style exserted, straight; stigma capitate; ovary turbinate, glabrous. null
