rootstock a cluster of long thick fleshy narrowly fusiform roots; stem in the only examples seen 2–3 in. high, simple or very sparingly branched, pubescent; leaves in 4–6 pairs, very shortly petiolate, spreading, 5–8 lin. long, 3–5 lin. broad, oblong, elliptic or orbicular-ovate, obtuse, rounded at the base, thinly pubescent on both sides and more densely on the midrib and margins with short spreading hairs; flowers solitary, lateral at the nodes; pedicels about 1/3 in. long, pubescent; sepals 1 1/2 lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, pubescent; corolla-tube almost none, flattish or saucer-shaped, about 1/2 lin. deep, glabrous; lobes free, erectly spreading, 4–4 1/2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad at the base, linear-oblong, subacute, apparently with slightly incurved margins, glabrous on both sides, ciliate at about 1 lin. above their base with a tuft of long jointed subclavate purple hairs, which are inwardly directed; outer corona-lobes arising 2/3 lin. up the staminal column and overtopping it by half their length, 2/3– 3/4 lin. long, erect, linear, truncate and very slightly dilated at the entire apex, minutely puberulous, ciliate with long hairs at the tips, apparently pale purplish; inner corona-lobes 1/3 lin. long, linear, obtuse, closely incumbent upon the backs of the anthers and not or scarcely exceeding them, dark purple-brown; staminal column nearly 1 lin. long. null