Erect, 1 ft. high; branches flexuous, pubescent; leaves 3-nate, laxly spreading or squarrose, broad-ovate or lanceolate to oblong, acute, open-backed, margins revolute, densely pilose above, pale below, up to 6 lin. long; flowers axillary, umbellate in threes in the middle of the branches, cernuous; pedicels decurved, 3-4 lin. long; bracts remote, foliaceous, small; sepals broad-ovate, obtuse, leaf-like in shape and texture, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; corolla urceolate-globose, much contracted to the mouth, glabrous, bright-red, 1 1/2-1 3/4 lin. long and equally wide; limb very small, erect; filaments rather broad; anthers subexserted, lateral ? narrow-oblong, muticous; style exserted; stigma small, subsimple; ovary villous with long straight hairs.
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