Erect, 3/4-1 1/2 ft. high; branches few, slender, ascending; leaves 3-nate, curved and spreading, a little longer or a little shorter than the internodes, linear, blunt, glabrous, gland-ciliolate, thick, 2-3 lin. long; umbels 3-5-flowered; pedicels slender, 2 1/2-3 lin. long; bracts subremote, slender, small; sepals linear or linear-lanceolate, sulcate, viscid, 2-2 1/2 lin. long; corolla tubular-inflated below, attenuate above, or tubular-urceolate, glabrous, viscid, tube rosy, throat purple, 4 lin. long; segments spreading, white, under 1 lin. long; anthers oblong, pallid, dorsifixed, straight or slightly curved at the base, but not crescent-shaped nor prognathous, slightly bilobed at the base, about 1/2 lin. long, muticous; style at length shortly exserted; ovary stipitate, glabrous ('minutely hairy', Salisbury); cells several-ovuled.
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Erect, often much-branched, rounded shrublet to 45 cm. Flowers medium, tubular to urn-shaped, pink, sticky.
Can be grown by cuttings. Seeds needs stratification.
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