tuber 3/4–1 in. long, 4–5 lin. thick; stems solitary, erect, about 10 in. high and 1/2 lin. thick at the base in the only specimen seen, puberulous all round; leaves below the flowering part in 6 pairs, erect, subsessile, 7–15 lin. long, 1/2– 3/4 lin. broad, linear, acute, with revolute margins, puberulous on both sides; umbels 2 lateral and 1 terminal, sessile, 2–5-flowered; pedicels 3–5 lin. long, slender, shortly villous-pubescent; sepals about 1 1/2 lin. long, narrowly lanceolate-attenuate, very acute, pubescent; corolla lobed nearly to the base, “brown” (Wood): lobes spreading, 2 1/2 lin. long, 1 1/4 lin. broad when flattened out, narrowly elliptic, minutely notched at the acutely pointed apex, narrowed at the base, replicate or with reflexed sides, pubescent on the back, glabrous on the inner face; corona-lobes arising 1/3 lin. up the staminal column rather more than 1 lin. high and 3/4 lin. broad across the side, compressed-cucullate, with the dorsal (lower) margin convexly curved and incurved at its apex and the sides produced into erect deltoid obtuse teeth rising to the level of or slightly exceeding the staminal column, without a tooth or process in the cavity, glabrous, “yellow and white” (Wood); staminal column about 1 1/2 lin. long. null