stems usually 1 1/4–2 (rarely up to 3 1/4) ft. high, 1/3–1 lin. thick at the base, usually simple, glabrous; leaves ascending or spreading, 1 1/4–5 in. long, 1/4–1 lin. broad, linear, acute, apparently folded lengthwise, glabrous, minutely and sparsely ciliate and denticulate on the margins; umbels 2–6 to a stem, racemose, pedunculate, 2–7-flowered; peduncles 1/4–1 in. long, rarely longer, slender, glabrous; bracts 1/2–2 lin. long, subulate or lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate; pedicels 2–4 1/2 lin. long, glabrous; sepals 1–1 2/3 lin. long, 1/2– 2/3 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, convolute-acuminate at the apical half, glabrous, not ciliate; corolla glabrous outside, not bearded at the mouth, but furnished with 5 tufts of deflexed hairs at the top of the tube just below the lobes inside, otherwise glabrous; tube 3/4–1 lin. long, 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. in diam., broadly campanulate or cup-shaped, slightly contracted at the mouth, 5-concave inside; lobes 1 1/4–1 2/3 lin. long, 2/3–1 lin. broad, ascending-spreading, oblong or ovate-oblong, acute or subobtuse; corona-lobes erect, not exceeding or shorter than the anthers, 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, broadly ovate or deltoid-ovate, obtuse or acute, with slightly reflexed sides and rounded basal angles; staminal column 3/4–1 lin. long; anthers oblong, obtuse or with an obtuse apiculus, not ciliate; follicles 2 3/4–3 1/2 in. long, 2 lin. thick, terete-fusiform, tapering into a long acute beak, smooth, glabrous. null
