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Erect shrub up to 30 cm or so (1 ft), entirely glabrous except, occasionally, downy on the branches. Leaves 3-nate, 4-6 mm long, erect, imbricate, linear and sulcate or oval and open-backed, pallid and subglaucous, mucronate. Flowers terminal at the end of short branchlets, few or copious, subcalycine; peduncles 6-12 mm long, slender, spreading or decurved; bracts median to remote, 4-6 mm long, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, keel-tipped, subscarious, bright yellow. Sepals 5-7 mm long, like the bracts but oblong or ovate, large and conspicuous and more acuminate, bright yellow. Corolla subfunnel-shaped, the lower part 3-4 mm long, somewhat globose, constricted above, whitish, the upper part 6 mm long, broad-cyathiform, orange-red; the whole 9-10 mm long; lobes continuous, broad-ovate, 4-5 mm long. Filaments slender, dilated at the apex; anthers included, 2 mm long, lateral, oblong and tapering to the top, obtuse or subacute, prognathous at the base, papillose, brown, muticous; pore 1/3-2/5 of the cell. Ovary turbinate, shortly stipitate; style included; stigma capitellate.
Erect shrublet to 60 cm. Flowers medium, spherical white tube with orange, cup-shaped lobes and yellow calyx.
