Erect, almost entirely glabrous, 1-2 ft. high; branches ascending, rather straight or subvirgate, sometimes puberulous, glabrescent; leaves erect, mostly subadpressed, not crowded, linear-subulate, acute, trigonous, deeply sulcate, 2-3 lin. long; flowers somewhat densely crowded on short branchlets, calycine; pedicels slender, subglabrous, 2-3 lin. long; bracts laxly subapproximate, lanceolate, about 2 lin. long; sepals imbricate, obovate or oblong, subacute, keeled on the upper half and keel-tipped, white, about 2 lin. long, about equalling the corolla; corolla subobconic or between rotate and salver-shaped from a broad base; tube subtetragonous, wider than its length; segments broad, obtuse, spreading at an angle of about 45°, about 1 1/2 times the length of the tube, the whole about 2 lin. long, entirely white; filaments from a broader base tapering upwards, about 1 lin. long; anthers included, manifest, sublateral, obovate-oblong, obtuse, smooth; cells bipartite, about 2/3 lin. long, crested; pore about 2/3 the length of the cell; crests about 1/4 the length of the cell, spreading; style exserted; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous, pallid on a dark disk.
Home