Erect, branching, probably 1-1 1/2 ft. high; leaves suberect, incurved, imbricate, linear-trigonous, acute, ciliate, 4-5 lin. long, 1/3 lin. broad; flowers 4-nate, generally densely clustered into heads; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, ciliate, 4-5 lin. long; sepals ovate-lanceolate or oblanceolate, somewhat suddenly narrowed to an acuminate point, keeled above and pubescent on the keel, scarious, ciliate, 5-5 1/2 lin. long, 1 2/3 lin. broad, somewhat coloured; corolla-tube subcylindrical, slightly larger at the base and more or less narrowed to the throat, glabrous, red-purple, 5 1/2-7 1/2 lin. long, 2-2 1/2 lin. broad; segments broad-ovate, acute, 2 1/2-3 lin. long, more than 2 lin. broad, white, sometimes with red bands below; anthers included, oblong, dark, 2/3-3/4 lin. long, muticous; pore about 2/5 the length of the cell; style shortly exserted; stigma small, capitellate.
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