tuber and stem as in L. rubella, but usually 1–1 1/2 ft. high, sometimes branched at the upper part and leafy from below the middle to the apex; leaves in 7–12 pairs, erect or ascending, the lower 2–3 in. long, the upper shorter, 1/4– 2/3 lin. broad, linear-filiform or linear, acute, glabrous; flowers usually in fascicles of 3–7 at the 5–10 uppermost nodes; peduncles 0–4 lin. long; pedicels 3 1/2–7 lin. long, very slender, glabrous; sepals 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, glabrous; corolla glabrous; tube 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, campanulate; lobes 2 1/3–3 1/4 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad at the base, 1/4 lin. broad above, linear-filiform, with recurved margins, acute, with a microscopic papillation on the inner face, but not tuberculate; outer corona-lobes 1/6 lin. long, subquadrate, notched at the apex, glabrous; inner corona-lobes 1/6 lin. long, subulate, acute or obtuse, applied to the backs of the anthers and shorter than or subequalling them. null
