Diffuse, 6 in. or more high; branches flexuous, straggling; hirsute, laxly leafy; leaves 3-nate, spreading or squarrose, as long as or often shorter than the internodes, from lanceolate and acute to broadly elliptical and obtuse, or suborbicular, thinly hispid and hispid-ciliate, or nearly glabrous, 1-2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels slender, 1 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote or subapproximate, setaceous to spathulate, glandular, hairy; sepals linear to oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, long gland-ciliate, 2/3-1 lin. long; corolla urceolate-campanulate to subcyathiform, mouth scarcely contracted or widened, puberulous, 1 1/4-1 3/4 lin. long; limb 1/2-2/3 the length of the tube; segments spreading or recurved; filaments equal; anthers subexserted, nearly as long as, or slightly exceeding the corolla-limb, lateral, dorsifixed near the base, oblong, incurved, about 2/3 lin. long, cristate-aristate; pore 3/5 the length of the cell; awns sublinear, curved outwards, and deeply toothed on the outer side only, about 1/2 the cell in length; style exserted; stigma capitellate; ovary hirsute.
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