an erect herb, sometimes decumbent at the base, glabrous or nearly so, 2/3–3 1/2 ft. high, parasitical, dusky when dried; stem simple, obtusely angular when fresh, furrowed when dry, usually erect or sinuous-erect; leaves all scale-like, opposite or alternate, not numerous, ovate or oblong, obtuse or scarcely acute, somewhat narrowed at the sessile base, concave and adpressed, entire, 1/2–1 1/4 in. long, 1/6– 2/5 in. broad; flowers racemose, subspicate, on short pedicels in the axils of the bracts, 2–3 1/2 in. long; pedicels up to 5/8 in. long or less, bibracteolate above the middle; bracteoles opposite, free from the calyx, linear or nearly so, 2/3–1 1/4 in. long; calyx campanulate-oblong, loose, veined, 10-nerved, not ribbed, 1–1 1/2 in. long, shortly 5-lobed; tube subcylindrical above the campanulate base, 1/3– 1/2 in. in diam.; lobes deltoid or ovate, 1/8– 1/4 in. long; corolla-tube subcylindrical, narrowly funnel-shaped and gently curved towards the top, shaggy outside with turgid somewhat viscid hairs, glabrous within below, bearded within about the insertion of the filaments, usually 2–3 in. long, 1/8– 1/4 in. in diam. about the middle, white with yellow throat or cream-coloured; mouth oval, about 3/8 in. long; limb spreading, subvertical, about 2 in. deep and 1 3/4 in. broad; lobes broadly obovate, wavy, 2/3– 7/8 in. long, 2 upper connate rather higher than the rest; stamens glabrous or nearly so, subequal; filaments about 1/6 in. long, inserted about the middle of the corolla-tube; anthers ovate, acute at the base, about 1/6 in. long at the apex with a very short blunt appendage; ovary finely pilose-puberulous, narrowing at the apex into the glabrous flattened style; stigma club-shaped, glandular-puberulous in part, exceeding the stamens, included, turned almost horizontally; capsule ovoid-conical, subcompressed, obsoletely puberulous, about 5/8 in. long, enclosed within the floral envelopes, somewhat fleshy. null
