an erect herb, simple, 4–13 in. high or more, viscid, somewhat pubescent, parasitical on the roots of Aspalathus especially A. laricifolia, Berg.; stem succulent, about 5/8 in. thick below when alive, mostly clothed with imbricate foliaceous scales; leaves scale-like, crowded, scattered or opposite, ovate or oval, obtuse, scarcely narrowed at the decurrent base, sessile, puberulous, ciliolate, deep scarlet or the lower dusky-yellowish, 1/2–1 in. long, by 1/3– 1/2 in. broad or the lower smaller; flowers spicate, numerous, subsessile, 1 1/2 in. long; bracts obovate-oblong, 3/4–1 1/2 in. long, deep scarlet; bracteoles linear, 2/3–1 1/8 in. long; calyx subcylindrical, straight, dimidiate, deep scarlet, 1–1 1/8 in. long, slightly puberulous, ciliolate, one side with a single linear segment about 1 in. long, the other 4-cleft with the lobes linear-lanceolate obtuse and 1/4– 1/2 in. long; corolla-tube cylindrical, nearly straight except the oblique top, glandular-puberulous outside above, 1 1/4 in. long, 1/4– 3/8 in. in diam., clear bright yellow or orange outside, tough, not membranous; mouth subvertical, about 1/4 in. in diam.; limb subvertical, spreading, dull olivaceous green, minutely glandular-puberulous on the face and margins, 5/8– 2/3 in. in diam.; lobes rounded, subequal, about 1/4 in. broad; stamens glabrous; style longer than the stamens; stigma clavate. null
