Branches flexuous, puberulous, pallid, 8-10 in. long; leaves 4-nate, subspreading, linear, acute, widely sulcate, puberulous and thinly hispid with short stiffish hairs, glabrescent, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate on short lateral branchlets, subcorolline; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts subremote, linear, erect, subglumaceous, about 1 lin. long; sepals somewhat spreading, not imbricate unless slightly at the very base, and not concealing the corolla-tube, lanceolate-linear, tapering to a narrow keeled point, subglumaceous, ciliate, glabrous, 1 1/2-1 3/4 lin. long, usually reaching as high as the top of the corolla-tube or higher; corolla narrow-cyathiform or suburceolate, the throat not (or scarcely) spreading, tetragonous, veined, glabrous, dry, 1 3/4 lin. long; segments erect (in the dried specimens), or subspreading, semiovate, overlapping at the base, about 1/3 the length of the tube; filaments capillary; anthers included, lateral, cuneate-oblong, obtusely rounded, smooth, membranous, brown, scaberulous on the margins, 2/5 lin. long, aristate; pore 1/2 the length of the cell; awns subulate, hairy, recurved at an angle of 45?-60? from the cells, about 1/2 the length of the cells; style included or sometimes just equal to the corolla and manifest; stigma capitellate; ovary densely and shortly villous.
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