Branches 4 in. or more long; leaves erect, incurved, imbricate, linear, obtuse, glabrous, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; pedicels 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, but.somewhat lax, sepal-like, but smaller; sepals broad-ovate, subobtuse, thick, rigid, cartilaginous, subviscid, slightly longer than the corolla; corolla broad-cyathiform, viscid, 1 3/4 lin. long; anthers terminal, ovate, very obtuse, tapering at the base, smooth, 3/4-7/8 lin. long; pore broadly elliptical, 1/2 the length of the cell; stigma subsimple; ovary glabrous.
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