Stems erect or ascending, simple or slightly branched, softly tomentose or villose, with greyish, pale brown or rust-coloured hairs, as well as the foliage and inflorescences. Leaves oblong or lanceolate to linear, 2½-7 cm by 2-10 mm, or the upper ones smaller, narrowed at the base, obtuse or acute at the apex; petiole very short. Peduncles mostly shorter than the leaves, 1-3-flowered. Pedicels short, 1-4 mm. Bracts minute, subulate. Outer sepals ovate-lanceolate, ca 7-10 mm long, rather acute, softly villose or nearly glabrous; inner ones a little shorter. Corolla campanulate, ca 2 cm long, pink. Stigmatic lobes broadly ovate, recurved. Capsule 6-8-valved. Seeds glabrous. (Description partly after BROWN, BENTHAM and BAILEY, ll.cc).
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