Branches straggling, diffuse, flexuous, woody, but somewhat slender for their size, white-pubescent, 6-8 in. long; leaves 4-nate, spreading, slender, linear, subobtuse, sulcate, nearly flat, glabrous, 2 1/2-3 1/2 lin. long; flowers mostly 4-nate, occasionally 3-nate, sometimes by arrest of the branchlets axillary; pedicels suberect, pubescent, 4-5 lin. long; bracts remote, lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; sepals erect, not imbricate at the base, obovate or oblanceolate, shortly acute, keeled, scarious, 2-2 1/2 lin. long, about equalling the tube of the corolla; corolla broad-urceolate or subglobose-urceolate, throat slightly constricted, several-nerved, glabrous, dry, red, about 2 1/2 lin. long; segments slightly spreading, broad, rounded, about 2/5 the length of the tube; filaments broad below, tapering upwards, about 1 lin. long; anthers included, lateral, longitudinally semilanceolate to semiovate, subacuminate; cells deeply parted, about 1/2 lin. long, crested; pore 2/3 the length of the cell; crests broad-ovate or suborbicular, minutely serrulate, about 2/3 the length of the cell, brown; style at length exserted, angular, swollen a little at the apex; stigma a short filiform point, much narrower than the truncated end of the style; ovary glabrous.
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Erect shrub, 1-2 m high. Leaves 4-nate, spreading, slender, 5.2-7.4 mm long, linear, subobtuse, sulcate, nearly flat, glabrous. Flowers (3)4-nate. Calyx sepals erect, not imbricate at base, 4.2-5.3 mm long, obovate to oblanceolate, shortly acute, keeled, scarious, pink. Corolla ± 5.3 mm long, subglobose-urceolate, several-nerved, glabrous, dry, red to pink; lobes slightly spreading, broad, rounded, ± 2/5 length of tube. Filaments broad below, ± 2.1 mm long; anthers included, lateral, semi-ovate, subacuminate; theca deeply parted, ± 1.1 mm long; pore 2/3 length of theca; crest broadly ovate, minutely serrulate, ± 2/3 length of theca, other appendages brown. Ovary glabrous; style exserted, angular, swollen at apex; stigma a short, filiform point, much narrower than truncated end of style. Flowering time Sept.-Jan.
Erect shrub to 1(-2) m. Flowers small, bell-shaped, pink.
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