Sisyranthus compactus N.E.Br.

Stems 6-14 in. high, simple, glabrous, marked with a transverse stipulary line at the nodes; leaves 2.25-4 in. long, 0.33-1.25 lin. broad, linear, acute, glabrous, minutely and somewhat obscurely toothed, with or without a slight ciliation; umbels 2-5 or 1 terminal compound umbel, 5-12-(or when compound very many-)flowered; peduncles 0-1 in. long, glabrous; bracts 0.75-1.25 lin. long, linear-subulate, ciliate; pedicels 1.5-4 lin. long, glabrous or pubescent along one side; sepals about 1 lin. long, 0.33 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, varying from thinly pubescent and ciliate to almost glabrous; corolla-tube 1 lin. long, 1.25-1.5 lin. in diam., globose-campanulate, contracted at the mouth, glabrous outside, densely bearded with deflexed hairs on the upper part within, glabrous below; lobes 0.75-1 lin. long, 0.5-0.75 lin. broad, ascending-spreading, ovate-oblong, acute, glabrous on the back, densely bearded with long hairs all over the inner face, darker coloured than the tube, with pale margins; corona-lobes reaching to about the middle of the corolla-tube, 0.5-0.67 lin. long, 0.5-0.67 lin. broad, 3-toothed or broadly rhomboid with the side angles somewhat tooth-like, middle tooth deltoid, acute or shortly subulate-acuminate, erect, shorter than the anthers or scarcely exceeding the hairs at their tips, not incurved over them; staminal column 0.67 lin. long; anthers oblong, densely ciliate with rather long white hairs at the tips.