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Roots fleshy, narrowly fusiform, fasciculate. Stems about 1 ft. long, with two pubescent lines. Leaves 3 1/2–6 in. long, 1/2–1 lin. broad, linear, acute, narrowed into a short petiole, glabrous. Umbels lateral and terminal, pedunculate, bearing upwards of 20 small flowers; bracts 2 lin. long, linear, acute, glabrous; peduncles 5–7 lin. long, puberulous; pedicels 3–4 lin. long, tapering from the base, puberulous. Sepals 3/4 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, channelled, closely reflexed on the pedicel, glabrous. Corolla closely reflexed on the sepals, “whitish-lilac” (Welwitsch); lobes 1 3/4 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad, oblong, acute, concave, glabrous. coronal-lobes minute, about 1/3 lin. long, and nearly as broad, roundish-ovate, very obtuse or subtruncate, slightly channelled, adnate, abruptly terminating in the hollows under the anthers, from which they have the appearance of protruding downwards, with their tips resting on the corolla; a small erect tooth between each pair of lobes and connecting them at their base. Staminal-column 1 1/4 lin. long; anther appendages broadly ovate or suborbicular, inflexed over the apex of the style. Follicles 5–6 in. long, 1/4 in. thick, narrowly fusiform, equally tapering into a long stipes and beak.