plant 2–5 in. high, branching from the woody neck of the tuber, very minutely puberulous on all parts to the outside of the corolla; leaves 1–1 1/4 in. long, 1–4 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, subacute, tapering at the base into a very short petiole; cymes small, axillary, 5–10-flowered; peduncles 1/2–1 lin. long; bracts 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, subulate; pedicels 1/2– 3/4 lin. long; sepals 2/3 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad, ovate or oblong-ovate, obtuse or subacute, puberulous; corolla from nearly glabrous to puberulous outside, apparently green; tube 3/4–1 lin. long, campanulate; lobes 1 2/3 lin. long, 3/4 lin. broad, oblong, subobtuse; corona-lobes arising at the mouth of the tube, trifid, shortly transverse rectangular at the base; middle segment 1 1/2–2 lin. long, filiform, lateral segments 1/2 lin. long, subulate, or reduced to minute obtuse teeth; anthers ovate, acuminate; pollen-carriers spathulate, with an elliptic or suborbicular blade. null
