apparently about 6–8 in. high, rather loosely branched; branchlets divergent or ascending, usually much recurved at the tips, puberulous, pale brown; leaves 3-nate, imbricate or shorter than the internodes, erect or ascending, 2/3–1 1/2 lin. long, ovate or lanceolate, acute, glabrous, ciliate with hairs and minute glands on the acute cartilaginous margins, usually with or sometimes without a tuft of 3–6 longer and stouter hairs at the apex of the younger leaves, the internal cavity in transverse section rather large, without a lining of hairs; flower-heads numerous, very nodding, subglobose, about 1/4 in. in diam.; calyx of the lower or of all the flowers 3/4 lin. long, 2/3 to nearly 1 lin. broad, orbicular, somewhat rhomboid-orbicular or broadly obovate, concave on the side next the axis, ciliate with rather long hairs on the broadly rounded lobes, otherwise glabrous or obscurely and minutely puberulous; corolla 1 1/4–1 3/4 lin. long, 2/3–1 lin. broad across the very gaping lobes, narrowly to broadly funnel-shaped at the upper half, rapidly or suddenly narrowed into a slender tube at the lower half, red or pink; lobes broadly rounded; anthers 1/2 lin. long, glabrous or minutely scabrid along the back of the cells; stigma simple. null
