Stem 12–18 in. high, with two pubescent lines in the upper part, glabrous below. Leaves sessile or nearly so, 3 1/2–5 in. long, 1–1 1/2 lin. broad, linear, acute, glabrous. Umbels lateral and terminal, the lower pedunculate, the upper sessile or subsessile, hemispherical or subglobose, more than 20-flowered; flowers small; peduncles 1 1/2–5 lin. long, pubescent or with hairy lines like the stem; bracts 2 lin. long, attenuate, acute, subglabrous; pedicels 3–4 lin. long, tapering from the base, puberulous. Sepals reflexed, 1 lin. long, lanceolate acute, concave, glabrous. Corolla closely reflexed; lobes 2 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad, oblong, acute, glabrous. Coronal-lobes minute, 1/2 lin. long, resembling a small tongue protruding from the hollow at the base of the anthers and directed downwards, narrowly oblong, obtuse, channelled down the face, adnate to the staminal-column, quite free from each other, with no alternating tooth between them. Staminal-column 1/10 in. long; anther-appendages ovate, subacute, inflexed over the apex of the style.