Stems slender, subterete or obscurely 4-angled, pilosulous with spreading hairs; principal leaves straight or slightly falcate, thin, lanceolate, 25-50 mm. long, 3-8 mm. wide, acuminate, cuneate at base into a pilose petiole 1-3 mm. long, 3-nerved, minutely puberulous to almost completely glabrous; cymes laxly branched, often shorter than the upper leaves, thinly pilosulous; hypanthium broadly campanulate, 2.5 mm. long, sparsely pilose; sepals broadly ovate-triangular, obtuse, 0.8-1 mm. long; petals 6 mm. long, conspicuously ciliate; episepalous anthers 1.6 mm. long, the connective prolonged 1.6 mm. to the filament and 1.6 mm. below the filament into a narrowly obtriangular, flat, truncate appendage; epipetalous anthers shorter, the connective prolonged 1 mm. to the filament, bearing on its base above the filament a flattened, ellipsoid, semi-adnate appendage.
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