erect, 1–2 ft. high; branches ascending, straight or flexuous, usually clothed with a pubescence of very short compound (rarely simple) hairs; leaves erect, imbricate, not crowded, linear, round-backed, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; flowers generally in interrupted numerous clusters at the ends of the branchlets, subcorolline; pedicels puberulous, about 1/2 lin. long; bracts variable, sometimes 1 only, close to the calyx, or with 2 smaller and subremote, or, entirely wanting; sepals from ovate-anceolate to ovate, or suborbicular, acute or subobtuse and apiculate, concave, hyaline, pallid, ciliolate or naked, about as long as the corolla-tube; corolla broad-cyathiform or subhemispherical, nearly 1 lin. long; segments broadly rounded, erect, a little shorter than the tube; anthers subexserted, from shortly oblong to subovate, subacute, scabrid, dull red, about 1/2 lin. long, muticous; pore about 2/3 the length of the cell; style exserted, straight, red; stigma cyathiform, large, with 4 intramarginal short points, bright crimson, about 1/2 lin. in diam.; ovary small, minutely hairy. null
