an erect herb, 4–8 in. high; stem somewhat strict, simple, leafless, roundly angular, puberulous with jointed hairs, minutely glandular; leaves scale-like, obtuse, mostly opposite, approximated at the base of the stem, distant above; racemes 4–8-flowered; flowers approximated, at times somewhat corymbose, bracts obovate or subspathulate or sometimes narrower, obtuse, hairy, exceeding the pedicels; pedicels 1/6– 1/3 in. long, hirsute or shaggy, subterete; calyx subcampanulate, hirsute or shaggy, 1/2– 3/5 in. long; segments erect, lanceolate, acute or subacute, about as long as the tube; corolla brilliantly scarlet in front, paler and yellowish outside, membranous, 1 2/5–1 3/5 in. long; tube from a subcylindrical base gradually dilated towards the throat, hirsute, gently curved, 1–1 1/4 in. long, at the middle nearly 1/8 in. in diam., at the throat 1/3– 3/8 in. in diam.; limb 3/4–1 in. in diam.; lobes patent, rounded, very obtuse, very minutely ciliolate, about 2/7 in. long; filaments glabrous or sparingly glandular-pilose, inserted above the middle of the corolla-tube; anthers subfalcate, spurred at the base, all fertile; spur acute, about 1/12 in. long; cells scarcely 1/12 in. long; style exserted, filiform, quite glabrous, incurved at the apex, distinctly exceeding the anthers; stigmatic lobes oblong, obtuse, 1/12– 1/8 in. long; ovary ovoid, quite glabrous; stigma obovoid. null
