erect, 2–5 ft. high; branches spreading, rigid, puberulous; leaves 3-nate, erect and imbricate, or somewhat spreading, linear to elliptic-oblong, sulcate, thick, smooth, 2–3 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, at length nodding; pedicels 2 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, foliaceous, ovate, very thick, viscid, 2/3 the length of the sepals; sepals like the bracts, 2 lin. long; corolla subclavate-tubular, glabrous, thick, very viscid, 10–12 lin. long; tube pink; limb suberect, green; stamens included; filaments slightly wider at the base; anthers narrow-oblong, with a projecting point at the base, 2 lin. long, muticous or minutely aristulate; ovary glabrous. null
