Erect, 1-1 1/2 ft. high; branches and leaves somewhat hoary-puberulous, at length glabrescent, pallid; leaves erect and incurved, or spreading, linear to oblong, obtuse, thick, keeled, sulcate, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; pedicels 1-1 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, somewhat lax, sepal-like; sepals obovate-oblong, keel-tipped, rather thick, ciliolate, about as long as the corolla; corolla suburceolate-cyathiform, scarcely contracted at the throat, minutely puberulous, white, 1-1 1/4 lin. long, the width somewhat exceeding the length; anthers subterminal, obliquely lanceolate, acute, about 3/4 lin. long, minutely ciliolate; pore 1/2-2/3 the length of the cell; stigma clavate; ovary glabrous.
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Like E. pogonanthera , erect shrublet to 45 cm. Flowers small, calycine, urn-shaped, hairy, white, with exserted anthers.