Stem 2 ft. or more high, simple, subterete, not 2-edged, slightly pubescent about the nodes and along one side at the upper part, otherwise glabrous; leaves erect or ascending, 2.5-4 in. long, 0.33-0.5 lin. broad, linear or linear-filiform, acute, minutely ciliate along the usually infolded margins; umbels about 4, racemosely arranged, 4-9-flowered; peduncles 0.33-1.25 in. long, thinly and minutely pubescent, as are the 4-7 lin. long pedicels; bracts 1-2.5 lin. long, linear or subulate, ciliate; sepals about 1.25 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, minutely pubescent, ciliate; corolla-tube 1 lin. long, rather broadly cup-shaped, not contracted at the mouth, glabrous outside, bearded at the mouth with a ring of hairs, which descend very slightly into the tube as 5 broadly triangular patches; lobes ascending, 1 lin. long and broad, ovate, subobtuse, with a thin tuft of a few hairs at the apex of the inner face, otherwise glabrous; corona-lobes not or scarcely reaching to the mouth of the corolla-tube, 0.67-0.75 lin long, erect, deltoid-ovate or subhastate-ovate, with a small spreading tooth or angle near the base, acute, with a short point inflexed from the apex upon the anther-tips and not exceeding them; staminal column 0.67 lin. long; anthers with or without 1 or 2 hairs at the apex.
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