Stem 1/2-1 ft. high, simple, somewhat harshly pubescent, more or less bifariously above; leaves apparently not more than 4-6 pairs to a stem, spreading, 1 1/2-3 in. long, 1-2 lin. broad, linear, with revolute margins, subacute, subscabrous-pubescent above and with longer hairs on the midrib beneath; umbels 2-5, lateral and terminal, pedunculate, racemose or the upper sub-corymbose, 5-8-flowered; peduncles 1/3-1 1/4 in. long, pubescent on one side; pedicels 3 1/2-5 lin. long, pubescent or puberulous on one side; sepals 1 1/4-1 1/2 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, pubescent; corolla-lobes spreading about 2 1/2 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. broad, ovate, acute, perhaps with recurved margins, pubescent on the back, densely white-bearded or subwoolly along the borders and glabrous or most minutely puberulous on the disk of the inner face, not ciliate; corona-lobes arising about 1/3 lin. up the staminal column, suberect, complicate, 3/4 lin. long and nearly as much across the side, subquadrate in side view, obliquely truncate at the top, with the inner apical angles produced into subulate teeth 1 lin. long, ascending high over the centre of the 1 lin. long staminal column; no tooth within the cavity; anther-appendages exceedingly short, nearly 4 times as broad as long, transversely oblong-linear, erect, not at all inflexed over the margin of the truncate style-apex.
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