stems 5–8 in. high, simple, 1/2– 3/4 lin. thick, shortly villous; leaves in 5–8 pairs, very shortly petiolate, very spreading, 3/4–1 1/3 in. long, 1/3–1 in. broad, elliptic, ovate or oblong, acute or obtuse and apiculate, rounded at the base, with narrowly revolute margins, thinly covered with short spreading hairs on both sides; umbels 3–4, sessile at the nodes, 3–5-flowered; bracts 2 lin. long, filiform; pedicels 3–4 lin. long, shortly villous; sepals 2 1/2–3 lin. long, 3/4 lin. broad, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, shortly villous; corolla-lobes spreading, 3–3 1/2 lin. long, 1 3/4 lin. broad, oblong-ovate, subacute, pubescent on the back, glabrous on the inner face; corona-lobes with a broadly cuneate basal part 1–1 1/4 lin. long, 1 2/3 lin. broad, having acutely angular shoulders, and truncately contracted into an erect or perhaps slightly recurving filiform point 1 1/2–2 lin. long, with a rather stout tooth-like appendage, 1/2 lin. long on the inner face, horizontally extended over the top of the 1–1 1/4 lin.-long staminal column and decurrent below as a keel; anther-appendages orbicular, inflexed on the broad truncate style-apex. null
