Dwarf, probably only a few inches high; branches numerous, short; leaves 3-nate, erect or spreading, or the older squarrose, obovate, obtuse, thick, sulcate, subglaucous, pallid, glabrous (or in cultivated specimens linear and green, Andrews), 2-2 1/2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels short; bracts short, approximate, cartilaginous, white, glabrous; sepals ovate, obtuse, keel-tipped, cartilaginous, viscidulous, white (or in cultivated specimens acute, rosy), about 1/2 the length of the corolla; corolla ovoid-inflated or subcylindric, glabrous, subviscid, tube rosy, the whole 3-3 1/2 lin. long; segments erect or slightly spreading, about 1/4 the length of the tube, green; anthers included, longitudinally semiovate, acute, crested; crests semiorbicular, denticulate on the outer margin, about 2/3 of the length of the cell, brown; style included; stigma subsimple or capitellate; ovary glabrous.
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