erect, 2–4 ft. high; branches mostly flexuous, sometimes straight; leaves 3-nate, erect and imbricate, or spreading, linear to narrow-elliptic, acute, glabrous or the younger puberulous, ciliolate or naked, 2–3 1/2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, erect or spreading; bracts approximate, like the sepals but about 2/3 of the length; sepals usually lanceolate, acuminate, more rarely oblong and subobtuse, keel-tipped, scarious, glabrous, coloured, 3–4 lin. long; corolla tubular and equal, or widening to the apex, or inflated below, glabrous, dry or viscidulous, costate or smooth, mostly red below and greenish-yellow near the tip, 11–14 lin. long; limb short, usually more or less erose or crispulate; filaments usually more or less dilated and ovate at the base, or at least wider and gradually contracted and tapering upwards; anthers included or subexserted, linear, usually with a sharp projecting point in front at the base, muticous, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; ovary mostly glabrous, rarely minutely hirtulous. null
