an erect herb, annual, parasitical on roots of Blæria muscosa and other Ericaceæ, &c., simple or branched, viscid, scabrid-pubescent, 6–24 in. high; stem angular, reddish, flexuous-erect or nearly straight, not densely scaly except below; leaves scale-like, opposite or the uppermost alternate, ovate or oblong, obtuse, not very much narrowed to the sessile base, entire, reddish, concave, 1/5– 3/5 in. long, 1/8– 1/6 in. broad, adpressed; flowers several, in the dry state 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long, white on both faces or changing to pink or yellowish-white suffused with flesh colour, scentless or fragrant; racemes terminal, 2–12-flowered; pedicels erect or suberect, up to 1 in. long or rather more, opposite or alternate, bibracteolate at the apex or above the middle, viscid-pubescent; bracteoles lanceolate or linear, 1/4– 3/5 in. long; calyx 1/2–1 in. long, pentagonal, inflated-campanulate, viscid-pubescent outside, 5-cleft; tube rounded or flat at the base; lobes deltoid or ovate, erect, 1/4– 1/2 in. long; corolla membranous; tube exserted, glandular-puberulous outside, curved downwards, campanulate above, subcylindrical below, rather ample above, 1/8– 1/4 in. in diam. about the middle; limb spreading, 1–1 3/4 in. across; lobes broadly obovate, 3/8– 3/4 in. long, wavy and erose-crisp, 2 top lobes approximated and reflexed, 3 lower spreading horizontally; throat compressed, narrowly oval, gamboge-colour; filaments finely glandular-pilose or nearly glabrous; anthers all perfect; style glabrous, exceeding the stamens; stigma globose, undivided. null
