stems 1–2 ft. high, 1/2– 3/4 lin. thick at the base, simple, pubescent; internodes 3/4–1 3/4 in. long; leaves opposite or 3–4 in a whorl, erect or ascending, 1–2 in. long, 1/3– 3/4 lin. broad, linear or linear-filiform, with revolute margins, acute, cuneately rounded into the very short petiole at the base, scaberulously puberulous; umbels often 2–3 at a node, pedunculate, racemosely arranged, 3–9-flowered; peduncle 1/3–1 in. long, adpressed-puberulous; bracts 3/4–1 2/3 lin. long, filiform, deciduous; pedicels 1 1/2–4 lin. long, adpressed-puberulous; sepals 1–1 1/4 lin. long, 1/4– 1/3 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, thinly pubescent; corolla-lobes campanulately spreading, with incurved tips, 1 1/3–1 1/2 lin. long, 1/2– 7/8 lin. broad, oblong, narrowed to a minutely notched point, with the margins slightly recurved, glabrous on both sides, green (Miss Pegler); corona-lobes white (Miss Pegler), equalling or slightly overtopping the staminal column, 1/2– 3/4 lin. long 1/2– 2/3 lin. broad, rhomboid-ovate, angular on each side slightly below the middle, much narrowed above, bifid or emarginate at the apex, where the sides are somewhat pinched together, just above the middle of the inner face arises a linear-oblong or ovate-oblong, erect appendage, 1/2– 2/5 lin. long, 1/4– 1/3 lin. broad, exceeding the lobe, bifid, bipartite or emarginate at the apex, decurrent in 2 parallel keels at the base; staminal column 2/3 lin. long; anther-appendages reniform, or very broadly ovate, very obtuse, with their tips slightly inflexed over or on the rim of the broad depressed style-apex; caudicles attached at or near the middle of the straight oblong-linear or oblong-lanceolate pollen-masses, which have a pellucid area immediately below the obtuse apex; young follicles fusiform, tapering into a long obtuse beak, puberulous, and beset with rather stiff ascending bristles 3/4–1 1/3 lin. long. null
