about 1 ft. high, much branched; branches pubescent; leaves 4-nate (or sometimes 3-nate, Bentham), linear, subtrigonous, acute, glabrous, ciliate, especially the younger, with long soft hairs, 1–3 lin. long; umbels 3–4-flowered; pedicels slender, puberulous, 3–4 lin. long; bracts remote, linear, small; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, scarious-edged; corolla urceolate or ovoid-urceolate, throat much contracted, glabrous, dry, 4–5 lin. long; limb broad, under 1 lin. long; anthers broad-cuneate, purple, 1/3– 1/2 lin. long, very minutely cristate or aristate, the appendages not reaching below the base of the cells; pore about 1/3 the length of the cell; ovary subsessile or broadly short-stipitate. null
