a perennial herb, stunted, 2 2/5–3 3/5 in. high, turning black in drying; stem somewhat stout, scaly, glabrous; scales opposite, rounded, obtuse; inflorescence corymbose, abbreviated, 2–8-flowered; flowers subsessile, pale rosy, about 1 3/5 in. long; bracteoles erect, linear, somewhat shaggy, adnate to the base of the calyx; calyx 1 in. long; tube subcampanulate, glabrescent or on the nerves puberulous; segments linear or lanceolate, subacute, somewhat shaggy; corolla obliquely campanulate; lower half of the tube contracted, quite glabrous, about 1/6 in. in diam., upper half widened, puberulous towards the apex, shaggy at the base of the lobes; throat above, 1/2 in. in diam.; lobes erect-patent, subquadrate-spathulate, rather small in proportion to the size of the corolla, subtruncate, minutely subcrenulate at the apex, ciliate, glabrescent on the back, glabrous within, 1/3 in. long and scarcely as wide below the apex; stamens not reaching the apex of the corolla-tube; filaments bearded at the base, puberulous on the back; anthers subfalcate, acutely apiculate with the apex reflexed, spurred at the base, including the spur 1/8 in. long; style filiform, quite glabrous, incurved at the apex, shortly exceeding the stamens; stigma-lobes subreniform. null
