stems 1–2 ft. high, usually simple, erect, sometimes with a slight indication of twining at the terminal part, minutely and softly puberulous; leaves petiolate; petiole 2–4 lin. long; blade 1 3/4–3 1/4 in. long, 1/6–2 1/4 in. broad, linear-lanceolate, lanceolate, oblong, obovate-oblong or elliptic, acute or obtuse and apiculate, cuneate to rounded at the base, minutely puberulous on both sides, paler beneath; cymes lateral at the nodes or subaxillary and terminal, subglobose, 3/4–1 in. in diam., subsessile or on peduncles 1–6 lin. long, many-flowered; bracts 3–4 lin. long, subulate, pubescent; pedicels 1 1/2–2 lin. long, softly pubescent; sepals 2–2 1/2 lin. long, subulate, acute; corolla velvety pubescent outside; tube about 1 1/2 lin. long, campanulate; lobes 2 1/2–3 lin. long, 1 1/4 lin. broad, oblong or somewhat ovate-oblong, obtuse, spreading, green, purple at the base; corona-lobes trifid, shortly transverse-rectangular at the green base; middle segment 2–2 1/2 lin. long, filiform, white; lateral segments 2/3 lin. long, filiform or subulate; anthers oblong, apiculate; pollen-carriers 1 lin. long, with an ovate-lanceolate blade and slender stalk of about equal length; follicles solitary (always?), 4 1/2–5 in. long, 1/4 in. thick, terete-fusiform, tapering into a beak, smooth, puberulous. null
