Stem solitary or 2 to a plant, simple, 1.25-1.75 ft. high, compressed and distinctly 2-edged, glabrous; leaves erect or ascending, 1-3.5 in. long, 0.25-0.75 lin. broad, linear or linear-filiform, acute, minutely denticulate and ciliate on the margins, glabrous; umbels 2-3, all crowded at the top of the stem or the lower one distant, 4-9-flowered; peduncle 0-2 lin. long, glabrous; pedicels 0.33-0.5 in. long, glabrous; sepals 1-1.25 lin. long, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, sparsely pubescent; corolla-tube 1.25-1.5 lin. long, campanulate, faintly contracted at the mouth, glabrous outside, densely bearded at the mouth and in the throat, with the hairs in the throat deflexed; lobes 1.5 lin. long, suberect, oblong or oblong-ovate, acute, bearded with hairs on the apical half of the inner face, glabrous elsewhere; corona-lobes reaching to or shortly exserted from the mouth of the corolla-tube, 1-1.25 lin. long, basal half 0.67-0.75 lin. broad, broadly rhomboid-ovate or obovate, 3-toothed, with the lateral teeth minute and the middle tooth filiform, erect, much exceeding the 0.67-0.75 lin. long staminal column and connivent above it; anthers with 3 or 4 hairs at the apex.
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