Branchlets slender, subglabrous or minutely hispidulous; leaves spreading, narrow-linear, subobtuse, faintly sulcate, glabrous, remotely and shortly ciliolate, 1 3/4 lin. long; flowers terminal, ('and also lateral' Tausch), sub-4-nate, cernuous; pedicels slender, straight, puberulous, over 1 lin. long; bracts narrow-linear, upper subremote, small, lower median; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, scarious-edged, and sparsely subdenticulate, 1 lin. long; corolla obconic ('campanulate', Tausch), widened at the mouth, 1 1/2 lin. long; segments erect, continuous, less than 1/2 the length of tube; filaments not very slender, straight; anthers subexserted, cuneate-oblong, straight, glabrous, 2/5 lin. long, cristate-aristate at the base; pore 2/5 the length of the cell; awns subulate, curved, denticulate or slightly lobed, fringed, less than 1/2 the length of the cell; style straight, tapering upwards, about equalling the anthers; stigma simple; ovary thinly hispidulous.
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