erect; leaves 4-nate, incurved, narrow or broadish linear, blunt, deeply sulcate, sometimes slightly open-backed, the upper copiously and softly long ciliate, 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long; flowers solitary, subsessile; bracts subremote, minute, sepal-like: sepals ovate, or subcuneate and retuse, apiculate, scarious, about 1/2 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular, incurved, tomentose-pubescent, dry, 10–12 lin. long; limb 1 1/4 lin. long, spreading, somewhat fleshy; filaments widening towards the anther; anthers subexserted, oblong, mid-dorsifixed, muticous, 3/4–1 lin. long; ovary glabrous. null
