; 0 basal sheaths white-tomentose, decreasingly pilose above. leaves densely rosulate at the base, 4–8 cm; long, 8 mm; broad a little above the middle, narrowed downward, above gradually attenuate, finely many nerved; bracts of the stem linear-attenuate; stem about 3 dm; high, erect or ascending, slender, paniculate above, the branches very slender, ascending, rather densely flowered; floral bracts about two-thirds the length of the strongly recurved pedicel, ovate, acute. flowers: sepals 2 mm; long, ovate, acuminate, rigid; petals (yellow?) 5–6 mm; long, lanceolate, nerved; longest filament 3 mm; long, its strongly curved anther half its length. pistil equaling the filaments, the style half as long as the ovoid, winged ovary, stout, linear, entire. fruits 3 mm; long.Edited from : Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 6: 489.. (1910)