Dwarf, under a span high; branches spreading, then ascending, flexuous, puberulous, with prominent lunate leaf-cushions; leaves 4-nate, spreading, straight or subrecurved, not crowded, slender, linear, subobtuse, flat above, rounded and sulcate beneath, glabrous, 3-4 lin. long; inflorescence a leafy, oblong, pseudo-spike at the ends of the branchlets, about 3/4 in. long by 1/4 in. wide; flowers solitary; pedicels pubescent, about 3/4 lin. long; bracts variable, mostly (in our specimens) entirely absent, occasionally 2, subapproximate, foliaceous, sometimes one only, long and reaching nearly to the top of the corolla; sepals sometimes somewhat unequal, slightly united at the base, lanceolate, acute, keeled, often reduced to three, about 1/2 lin. long; corolla, urceolate-cyathiform, scarcely constricted at the throat or widened at the mouth, red, about 3/4 lin. long; segments rounded, suberect, about 1/3 the length of the tube; filaments slender, equal, a little shorter than the anther; anthers sublateral, obovate-oblong, obtuse, smooth, over 1/4 lin. long, muticous; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; ovary subglobose, glabrous.
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Small shrub, up to 400 mm tall. Leaves 4-nate, slender, sulcate, glabrous. Flowers solitary in short dense, leafy oblong pseudospikes at ends of branchlets. Corolla urceolate-cyathiform. Anthers included. Style included but sometimes exserted. Flowers red; August to October and January to March.
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