Slender perennial herbs (?) or shrublets ca. 50 cm tall; brachlets terete, spread-ing short-pubescent, ca. 2.5 mm in diameter. Principal leaves with blades thinly membranous when dry, 11-13 cm long, (2-)3-4 cm wide, usually about 3-4 times as long as wide, lanceolate, apically long-acuminate, basally rounded, inconspicu-ously appressed short-pubescent above and beneath or with spreading trichomes 0.2-0.4 mm long on the principal veins, marginally inconspicuously serrulate with pale yellowish callosities 2-5 mm apart; petioles spreading short-pubescent, 5-9 mm long. Flowers 33-38 mm long, borne in loose terminal racemes, the axis ca. 4 cm long; pedicels ebracteolate, stiffly spreading, 3.5-4.5 cm long, 0.5 mm in di-ameter, clearly articulated 1-4 mm from the base; hypanthium 5-9 mm long, ob-conic at anthesis, glabrous to sparsely spiculate, conspicuously longitudinally nerved; calyx lobes narrowly linear-lanceolate, 4-6 mm long, ca. 0.8 mm wide at the base, entire, glabrous, erect; corolla orange and yellow, externally glabrous or sparsely and minutely short-pubescent, the trichomes ca. 0.5 mm long or less, internally glabrous, the tube orange, straight, 22-26 mm long, 7-9 mm in diameter above, the 5-6 mm long base abruptly contracted to ca. 2 mm in di-ameter; the lobes yellowish, all erect and straight, the 2 upper lobes 4-6 mm long, the 3 lower lobes 5-8 mm long; filament tube 23-28 mm long, about as long as the corolla tube, the anther tube 3.5-4.5 mm long, externally abundantly villous with pale lavender trichomes 0.8-1.0 mm long. Capsules 45 inferior or more, 9-12 mm long; seeds plump, reddish brown, shallowly pitted, ca. 0.5 mm long.
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