erect, mostly 1 (rarely 1 1/2–2) ft. high; branches many, erect, subvirgate or flexuous, pubescent; leaves 3-nate, mostly erect and adpressed, about equalling the internodes or subimbricate, broadish-linear or ovate-oblong, acute or obtuse, thick, nerved above, sulcate below, glabrous, mostly 1–2 lin. long, rarely longer; inflorescence closely pseudo-racemose at the ends of the branches; flowers 1–3-nate in the axils of the leaves; racemes mostly 1–1 1/2 in. long, rarely longer; pedicels pubescent, about 2 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals oblong, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, keeled, very concave, scarious on the margin, ciliate, about 1 lin. long; corolla urceolate-campanulate, mouth slightly contracted, subtetragonous, glabrous, rosy or dark red, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; limb slightly spreading, 1/4– 1/3 the length of the tube; anthers included, sublateral, dorsifixed at or just above the base, narrow-ovate or suboblong; cells partite to or below the base, about 1/4 lin. long, decurrent-aristate; pore over 1/2 the length of the cell; awns nearly equal to the cell, the free portion of variable length; style included; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous or thinly and minutely puberulous. null
